Back to Basics 04/16/2017 I've spent most of my life in Western cultures with the exception of 6 months in Afghanistan and a couple days in Israel and Turkey. It's familiar and easy to get around, everyone speaks English, the streets are varying degrees of well-paved. I knew going in Thailand would raise some amount of culture shock simply being that English wasn't the first language and the standard of living is slightly lower than that of the US. Before getting here I'd done very little research on the culture and
I've spent most of my life in Western cultures with the exception of 6 months in Afghanistan and a couple days in Israel and Turkey. It's familiar and easy to get around, everyone speaks English, the streets are varying degrees of well-paved. I knew going in Thailand would raise some amount of culture shock simply being that English wasn't the first language and the standard of living is slightly lower than that of the US. Before getting here I'd done very little research on the culture and
