Hello Stalkers I'm Kathryn  Desinaasappeen  and today we're talking about
culture shock. I have six things for you
that when I first moved to France I
thought we're just odd and shocking to
me because they were so different to
what I was used to back home number one
if you've ever watched Beauty and the
Beast you know there's this wonderful
song that Belle sing as well she's
walking into town Bonjour...... and you have all these people
coming out of the Woodworks to say
bonjour to each other
and that is a thing over here.  in France
it's meant to be polite. you're
acknowledging that another person exists
and yes it's really nice. however. they do
it with everyone!  ...........  .......... And  I
didn't understand this it's like why is
this person I don't know talking to me
and then just walking away it was just
like okay hi bye
it's not even that I thought it was
weird it's just it was awkward for me
because I wasn't used to talking to
people that I didn't know and it was
just awkward to say hello to somebody
and just walk away from them we don't
talk to people you don't know in America
number two cash was always one of those
things that I had in my wallet for
emergencies I never used it because I
also had a credit card and so if I
needed to buy something I would just use
the credit card because cash is just
it's annoying it's chunky you get coins
then you have to like dig through it
versus the credit crisis it was very
different coming to Europe I'm
discovering that there were certain
places that didn't accept credit card
number three the time at which we eat
dinner it's gonna change from person to
person my family we were early eaters
dinner was at four or five I don't think
I ever had dinner any later than six and
six was like really late that was Oh eat
yeah dinner's not like that in France at
the earliest starts at 7:30 do
mentioned that 7:30 is the earliest and
what makes this like mind-blowing is
that dinner in France takes a really
really really long time to do like in
America you get your food you eat you're
done in 15 to 30 minutes know you're at
that table for at least an hour maybe
two or three you have to appreciate your
food guys number four I knew about the
cheek kisses before I went to France
however what they taught us in school
did match up to how it went down in
France at all--just
they lied why why did they lie I was
given the impression that when you meet
somebody for the first time in France
you normally give them a handshake and
then as the relationship progresses
once you become friends then you'll
start to greet each other with the cheek
kisses so much to my surprise once I
meet somebody we meet again for the
second time and we're already doing
cheek kisses as a little side note I
think it'd be very useful if people who
do the cheek kisses could have like a
number on their forehead to indicate how
many cheek kisses they do because it can
range from one to four and you just you
never know you know person who does one
kiss will go in for one and then stop
it's stressful guys the beaches are
freaking stressful you can't screw up a
handshake you really can't it's just
number five vacation and if you happen
to miss it I did a whole video
discussing vacation I was so shocked
that people not only had two weeks off
like every other month but that they
actually went places that's like the
blew my mind and finally number six I
think any American who's made a video
about a European country will have the
shop hours as one of the cultural shocks
that he experienced for me the cultural
shock comes from the community of
the shops in the towns for example when
I lived in Chateau no tsuita on our one
big road we had three bakeries and that
just it didn't make any sense to me
because I thought surely one of them has
to be the best so how are the others
stayin and business and it just I didn't
make sense to me until you account for
vacation and ours I don't know if they
have like a meeting place where they go
and like say hey I'm going to be taking
this week from this week what are you
guys going to take almost since you're
taking that week we'll take this week
here I don't know but but people get to
have lives and I think that's really
nice for them but I still like it's it's
sort of awkward cuz I don't think that
would work in America because it's
capitalistic and you need to make a
profit and people don't have lives if
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up there and that light there that I
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