{"id":4797,"date":"2021-09-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2021-09-03T16:29:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T14:29:33","slug":"home-country-host-country-cultural-surprises-reverse-cultural-shock-absolutely-intercultural-266","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=4797","title":{"rendered":"Home country+ Host country+++ Cultural surprises +++ Reverse cultural shock +++ Absolutely Intercultural 266 +++"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4797-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_266.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_266.mp3\">http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_266.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4802\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcastpic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcastpic.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcastpic-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcastpic-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcastpic-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcastpic-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 85vw, 209px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hello and welcome to show 266 of our podcast \u201cAbsolutely Intercultural\u201d. Today we talk about the cultural surprises that will happen to you when you live abroad and far from your home country. For some of us, living abroad is a temporary expierience in life and for others living abroad has become a permanent challenge or joy. When we go home, mostof us instantly feel comfortable again but for some their home country doesn\u2019t feel like home anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why do we sometimes feel more comfortable in our host country than in the country where we were born? Which are the reasons that no matter where we go, there is something that drawsus back toour home country?<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely fitting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our first category, <strong>\u201cabsolutely fitting<\/strong>\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/natasha.obikhod\">Natalia<\/a>,originally from Ukraine,tells us about the reasons why she feels that Germany has turned into her chosen home country. She explains that living, studying and working in Remagen has provided her the intercultural environmentwhich she had always been searching for in her home country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely shocked<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our second category, \u201e<strong>absolutely shocking<\/strong>\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ariana.elezi.52\">Ariana<\/a>, an exchange student from Albania, tells us about her first loud and cheerful birthday party \u2013 at the age of 20! For her as an Albanian Muslim birthdays are apparently not a big deal and only communal celebrations such as Eid are celebrated in full pomp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>absolutely indian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, in our last category, \u201c<strong>absolutely Indian<\/strong>\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/surya.sunil.3348\">Surya<\/a>, from Pondicherry University in the South of India, shares with us that even though she tried hard to recreate an Indian-like environment here in Germany, not everything can be recreated. Compared to India, even big cities in Germany seemed \u201cempty\u201d to her and she misses the closeness of the crowds in India.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? Do you have any host country that feels just like your home country, or even closer? \u00a0Is there something in your home country which brings you always back to it? Write a comment or mail us, we could do a follow-up with you in one of our next shows.<\/p>\n<p>Our next show will be coming to you on the 1<sup>st<\/sup> of October.<\/p>\n<p>Until then \u2013\u00a0stay as diverse as you are &#8211; and<\/p>\n<p>Bleiben Sie absolut interkulturell!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The host of this show is:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurent-borgmann.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Laurent Borgmann<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chief Editor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/esjona.es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esjona Musta<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Editors: \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alina.vor.39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alina Vor,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/natasha.obikhod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natalia Obikhod<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mikeladzeelene\">Elene Mikeladze<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wyali8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natia Nikvashvili<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poddownico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_266.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podfeedico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/absolutely-intercultural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Podcast-Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podaboico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/podcast-absolutely-intercultural\/id137617215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome to show 266 of our podcast \u201cAbsolutely Intercultural\u201d. Today we talk about the cultural surprises that will happen to you when you live abroad and far from your home country. For some of us, living abroad is a temporary expierience in life and for others living abroad has become a permanent challenge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=4797\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home country+ Host country+++ Cultural surprises +++ Reverse cultural shock +++ Absolutely Intercultural 266 +++&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1383,973,885,350,81,1307,156,789,1306,814,1370],"class_list":["post-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-albania","tag-cultural-differences","tag-cultural-shock","tag-diversity","tag-germany","tag-homesick","tag-india","tag-internationalize-yourself-at-home","tag-new-home","tag-rheinahrcampus-remagen","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4797"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4810,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4797\/revisions\/4810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}