Culture Shock

Our Exploration was about Culture Shock, which meant feeling of confusion experienced by someone from another country and they are shocked with an unfamiliar culture like way of life and attitude. We created this exploration because we wanted to learn more about our culture in order to teach other people. Also, it is extremely important to know your own culture. In our exploration we learned about way of life and mostly about social class. In way of life we learned how people dress and how life in the city and rural areas are difference. Social class is the term to show the social position of persons which is differentiated by wealth, job, income and priority to do thing. There are three classes such as upper, middle and lower. In our Exploration we had one trip that went to Siem Reap. The reason that we went there not other provinces because Siem Reap has a lot of tourists. Our goals that we went there were to interview people to get as much information as we can and to know how did tourists felt when they came to Cambodia. After the trip we divided the group into three. We had Khmer belief group, Khmer ceremony group, and of course Khmer language group. The reason that we made this three groups because we wanted to take this lesson to teach our Khmer kids and foreigners. If we wanted to get this lesson done as the students we needed to do some research on the internet for Khmer belief and Khmer ceremony. For Khmer language we didn’t need to do the research, but we needed to put some important Khmer daily words. So, that the foreigners can learn about it and use it when they travel to some areas in Cambodia in order to communicate with Khmer people. At the end of the exploration we invited some Khmer students that were around our community to come to our school. The reason that they came to our school because we wanted to share what we had learn in our Exploration to them. We shared two lessons to them which were Khmer Belief and Khmer Ceremony.

Interviewed People

At Cultural Village in Siem Reap