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Culture shock explains the impact of moving from a culture you’re familiar with to an unfamiliar one. It reflects the surprise of a new environment, with new people and a new way of life. This can be so overwhelming. Culture shock is totally normal and usually unavoidable. It is simply a social phenomenon that is bound to happen to each person, at least once in their lifetime.
Has anyone ever heard about the Mursi’s lip plate culture? The Mursi tribe live on Omo valley in Ethiopia. They wear traditional clothes and accessories. The Mursi are popular for their wooden lip plate culture, which is a symbol of beauty. The Mursi women wear the wooden lip plate to beauty themselves. The bigger the plate of a Mursi young woman, the bigger her bride price. Apart from beautification, the Mursi women wear lip plates as a sign of commitment to their husbands. It is worn with great pride when serving him food. Such that when the husband dies, the Mursi woman removes her lip plate since it is believed her beauty disappears once the husband dies. Also, the lip plate serve as a major factor that identifies the Mursi from members of other tribes. Such beauty in diversity!
As a left-handed person, I was shocked to my bones when I travelled to Africa, Nigeria precisely, and realized it is a bad thing to eat or greet people with your left hand. Wow! I was really so surprised. Receiving things from people with left hand is also as a sign of disrespect. I found that so strange because I greet people with my left hand, I eat with my left hand, I do my major things with my left hand. Adjusting to their way of life was quite difficult.