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In my life I have experienced both possitive and negative encounters, these encounters have made me learn a great deal of thing in life, such as intercultural communication, respect, adaption in different societies...In this essay i am going to talk about a negative encounter that I experienced a few years ago. This occurred in England when I was studying abroad in an English boarding school during my I.G.C.S.EOnce I arrived at the school I imediately noticed there was a very large number of nationalities, in the beginning I thought that this had no importance since I have always lived in Marbella, which is a known tourist resort and therefore there are many foreigners, and in consecuence
For example there was a group a Chinese, Thai, Arabs, Europeans etc. Each group represented a nationality, a culture or a religion. There were many more things that i found extremely interesting and may be very useful in a future. The thiong that surprized me most was that when they were on their own theuy were really nice to speak to and they opened up quit a bit. The problem was when a few got together, they were noy bad, but they simply didnt make an effort for you to participate in their conversations. There was a constant in gruop talk, and they would never speak english if they were more than two of them, in many times i tried to take part in a conversation between them for example at dinner times, but they would never speak in your language. Another important aspect that ocurred in the school, was how some nationalities looked down to others, in other words that some people felt superior to others, this was another barrier for communication within the students of the school. For example the English students, constantly looked down on the Asian students and when there was some type of communication it was always in a downword talk tone. A curious thing about them was that they would never look at a teacher to their eyes since this was considered to be very rude in their culture, they would always look down to a teacher. I never understood the reason for this attitude between students from different countries. As time passed I could realize that the school was divided up into groups.
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