Culture shock

One doesn’t need to go abroad to experience it, but meeting a wide and different range of people can do wonders for your outlook and attitude.

THERE is always this idea that going overseas means experiencing a great challenge to a person’s traditional Asian values. Everyone expects the students who go abroad to experience some kind of culture shock, and as an outsider, you would come to a great realisation that there is a “them” and “me”. For me, Australia never gave me that feeling — Malaysia did.