Change of culture

TRAVEL IS JUST NOT TAKING PHOTOS IS EXPLORING THE CULTURE.

To start, we all love the idea of ​​knowing different cultures and being able to learn something new that in a certain way you can incorporate into your life and make you grow as a person.

“Interaction with new cultures helps you to expand your knowledge and understand the difference of customs and thought of each individual in society..”

Some time ago my life took a turn, completely changed culture or even something remotely close to language. I lived my whole life in Puerto Rico, a tropical island that every day is more recognized in the whole world, for it’s music like "Despacito", food, parties and beauty pageants for example Zuleyka Rivera. A culture that live from party to party, that the word family is the beginning and end of at the same sentence. Where are you from 15 minutes to 2 hours as much to get to the beach, the same distance if you want to go to a river and admire the beauty of the mountains.

My current reality is completely different and that is because I am living now in Japan, yes in Tokyo, Japan! On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, where language is the first barrier, where food is raw fish, a lot of pork and even horse meat sushi and many different desserts with soybeans. A completely extreme change, from coming from an island where it is summer all year to a place where already in October the cold is wrapping us until mid-April. The beaches are more than 3 1/2 hours and the rivers are shallow.

But despite all the differences I have found that it is not impossible to fit into a new culture, admire natural beauty, try a new language and above all add new flavors to your palate.

Japanese culture has surprised me since the first days and every day it continues to do so. The organization at the time of taking the train, the streets and public baths are always clean, if you ask for directions they draw you an exact map of the address or better yet they take you directly to the place you are looking for. The way they preserve the temples as if they had been built a few years ago is impressive. The friendly service in everywhere, although not in all restaurants allow foreigners, something new for me but I respect it. Every time I discover something new about the Japanese culture, the way of teaching in schools, why children go to school from a very early age alone and many other things, is knowledge that helps me understand their customs and it’s what it has motivated me to write about my experience living as a tourist abroad.

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