Culture shock

When someone comes back to hearth after living in another country, this person always faces a culture shock. I am not an exception so when I had visited Ukraine after living in the US for 1 year, my home country was not perceived as before leaving. Cultural norms of my country were not estimated by me in the same way, I saw everything with more critical eyes. For two months that I had been in Ukraine reverse adaptation did not start. What was different?

1. People. Women and men with sad facial expressions and eyes that seem hate the whole world in the service sector. They were not patient and they just use intonation that shows that they do not like their job and who they are. I always do not like services in Ukraine but now it was not bad it was awful. Sometimes it could be nice, but it was more often bad than nice.

Whole people seemed to have their problems and issues did not leave their mind for 24 hours so everyone tried to complain to you for something or just say how everything is bad.

2. City. The third largest city in the country seemed so small and so low and nothing have changed for this time, the new park that should have been opened 6 mouths ago still was closed. The road that was being repaired still continue reestablishing, time froze.

3. General poverty. For a year I used to see nice well maintained homes, new cars on the street, homeless people that look like normal people instead of old pensioners that try to survive for their pension. The standard of living was much lower than in US.