Many of us when we come from Nepal experience cultural shock. What was yours??
One of the biggest schocks to me was when students in class sat with their shoes facing the teacher. I thought that was totally disrespectful. I would also get surprized when total strangers greeted me.

The biggest shock when I landed in this alien land is still shocking me.........
My shock was I used to use bathroom in RABBIT style, now a days I have to use KANGAROO style.
Aafu lai ajhai pani kagaj le aachi puchhe pachhi pani le chokhyaunu parchha.

My biggest cultural shock was when my roommate was dogging his gf when I was right there the first week of college. It was very shocking but kinda fun too?????????????

Also another cultural shock was when other international students conned me to go into the women's locker room saying it was a coed locker. It was a pleasant shock for real. God these american women are hottttttt

Biggest culture shock, iit wasn't a land of blondes haha...i saw peeps just like us everywhere.

biggest culture shock: during week one of our orientation, they took us to the beach. i got a culture shock when i realized that it wasn't like baywatch!

the only cultural shock i had was coming across nepalese living out here..evrybody else was ok..and the fact that most americans are more conservative than me..like Zsingh pointed out.....I guess i'd be better off in France

welcome in advance :P

ya hushpupps, there is a whole spectrum of nepalese folks in the US. you can get a good glimpse of the cross section when you go to these nepalse conventions. the variety is just really amazing. also, methinks the americans have become more conservative over the last few years....

another culture shock: in the first week of freshman year, i hung out with a bunch of losers who only talked about dumbass television shows that i had never seen. so i always felt out of place. so decided to go find friends who were less limited in their perspectives and interests. it turned out to be a good decision.

Found out the difference between using the word "rubber band" and "rubber" at work infront of 10 people.....i guess we all call it rubber for rubber band in nepal cause i never heard anyone saying rubber for condom...

Nepal bata aayeko yo sojho harikancha lai dosro hapta ma nakharmauli le club ma tanera ladies toilet tira lagna lageko. Toilet ko dhoka ma pugera po kata lagna lageko thaha bhayo. yeso heriyo daya baya, bouncer le bhetyo bhane ta laat hanera bahira lagharcha. Ani haina bhitra jana maile mildaina bhanera bhane. Kar gardai thi, ma janna bhandai thiye, mori le afno tshirt mathi uchalera dekhayi.

cultural shock bhanne ki cultural amusement bhanne

talk about more shocks..this fren of mine was officialy dating one of my female amrican colleagues, proving his man hood and then he used to date 'goodlooking' boys at work at the same time..

It wasn't shocking to find a gay nepali but the extent he was preternding to be in the closet while each one of us knew him well..i felt sorry for the girl

haha.. I did get into a ladies room while once I was really drunk. I couldn't see the signs properly and so I just went in to take a leak and was really confused when I didn't see any men's pee bowl. So I took a leak inside on a toilet bowl and when I was washing my hands, I had three ladies say to me "what are you doing in a ladies room?" I was like "is this a ladies room? Oh I'm really sorry" and they started laughing like crazy. I was pretty embarassed so I just ran outta there.

I was a tthe office meeting in my first year in the US and our director was saying something about UNCLE SAM and I raied my hands and asked " Who is this Uncle Sam?" You can imagine hall full of 300 + people laughed so badly. Everytime I think about it can not control my laugh. HA..ha...ha....

Came to usa, second day went to the walmart with family. 2 of my friends were with us. Both of them were walking together, you know eachother's hand on the shoulder. giggling , talking and laughinh to eachother and walking inside the walmart. May be people were looking at them, i didnt realize it then. My sisters came infront of them and asked them, are you guys gay?? They replied of course we are gay!!
we all didn't know wat gay means?!! My sisters didn't say anything but laughed few times teasing my friends coz they were still holding the hands and walking together.
later, I think they asked to my uncle and he told them the meaning of gay and means of 2 guys holding hands here in usa.
As soon as they foundout, they came to me and and asked me do i know what is this gay means?? I was still unknown...... I think they didn't tell me that day... neither i was that curious to know that time.
Next day, we went to the international party of the university student. My uncle whispered on my ear, that guy is gay. I was like " gay bhaneko ke ho"? he answered me in one word "hijada". I still got confused and asked him how he is gay or hijada and stuffs. later he explained me in detail about Gay. That was very disgusting & shocking for me to know about gay and their preference.

Okay I saw root beer in the cafeteria soda fountain and I thought wah wah.. In america they serve beer in school's cafeteria. After drinking it, I was disillusioned.

couples dividing their grocery bills.

haha..this is getting even better..

i was sharing a duplex with two guy frens and my li'l cousin sista..I knew my sista didn't know how to cook, so i presumed the boys wud be worse, and i ended up making inedible food about a month that we trashed each day...it was terrible...finally i called all the members at my apt that i am giving up cooking...and then one of the guys said 'let me try'....and wala his cooking was better than an indian bistro....and all this time he kept quiet..cause if i find out he'll have to do the cooking....dammit i was so mad and glad at the same time that guys are better at housekeeping here..hahha

This one is also about Root beer_ When I was in ktm working for an INGO, one of my american friend invite me to the Fora darbar ( American club) in kantipath and he has his wife and three young kids, when they order food and drink the youngest child order root beer and I was so shocked and asked my boss , " How can you allow a 4 year old child to have beer?" later I also had the root beer.

For me, comparing cultural shock within our country itself is unparalleled as that with the cultural shock between Nepal and other Western countries.

Being an inhabitant of central region of Nepal, once I had an opportunity to go to Chitwan, Southern region for my job related excursion, and seeing all those naked guys(wrapping with those so called thong around their lower bottom), my goodness, that is the first and last biggest cultural shock I have ever faced in my whole freaking life.