Different Country, Different Culture

Living in a new country means experiencing a different way of life. This is very exciting and interesting, but it can also be a little challenging at times. The cultures of all countries are unique, which means that people who have grown up in different places will have different ways of behaving, different ways of thinking about things and different ways of expressing themselves. Before you travel it is useful to think about culture - and the things that are affected by it - as doing so will help you prepare for living in a new country.
Think for a moment about culture. What does it mean?
(Please go to the link on the right hand side of the page called "Culture Exercise". Take 5 minutes to write down your ideas and either print them or save them to your computer. We will consider a possible answer a moment...)
Culture is. . .. . . very difficult to define!!! One way of completing this sentence could be:
Culture is the values, attitudes, behaviours and beliefs shared by a group of people.
This means that culture is like a kind of glue that holds society together. We learn about the culture of our own society in a very natural way as we grow up - it is in the "do's" and "don'ts" about how we treat people, how we behave and what we believe in that we learn as children.