Last week in sociology we watched the film God grew tired of us, a film about the lost boys, refugees from sudan, who were sent to the United States.
During this film we were able to see the different terms we talked about the week before. the biggest ones I noticed was the level of culture shock the refugees experienced when they made the move to the US. Their previous culture was pretty much a complete 360 of what our is and when they made the move here it completely changed their lives. At first their culture shock was good, such as their amazement of the food and the technology they saw. But as the movie progressed some of the culture shock turned into ethnocentrism when they were talking about how the community is a lot more private then what they had experience and they were almost mad about it. They had quotes talking about how their culture was better and how they couldn't understand how ours could be so different. This movie also showed how culture is so important to us and how we can't survive without it. This is seen where one of the boys goes insane and ends up getting arrested and sent to a mental institution because he couldent handle the american culture.
  It's weird to think about how important culture to ourselves and to others and how a big change in it for some people can drastically change their lives