The Differences Between American and Indonesian Norm

Imagine this: You are on your way walking to school and having both your friends and strangers saying hello to you or asking you are doing. It’s normal for American to do this but being a foreigner, it’s a totally a new experience to have people greeting me so often. I fell so different, it’s like having a lot of people care about me. Basically there are tons of different kinds of …showed first 75 words of 1404 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1404 total…the last reason is desire for approval; other members of society will approve of your behavior because you are doing the "right thing"”. (qtd. from “Social Norms”). Have you ever been to another country and realize how it feels to be on another planet? Sometimes it makes you fell you are in the middle of foreigner, but truly those kinds of behavior have good points that perhaps will take some time to make you understand.