Blog Post #7

 Acculturation refers to migrating to a new culture and learning said culture. Some people go to different cultures permanently, called immigrants, while people who go to new cultures and only intend to stay temporarily, called sojourners. When people initially migrate to new cultures, they initially will fall in love with the culture, this is called a honeymoon phase. During this phase, migrants love the new culture they are in, loving everything about it. After this is the culture shock, where positive feelings are replaced by negative feelings about the acclimated culture. After the culture shock, these negative feelings balance out and feelings about the culture remain even, or go back to positive. 

I spent an extended period of time visiting Newfoundland this summer, and I acclimated to the culture considerably. Newfoundland was a very extroverted culture, so I found it quite easy to fit in and get along with the people there because I am by nature an extrovert as well. I was there for a while, and for the first period I really enjoyed myself and everything the province had to offer. However, after a while I got pretty tired of the overt extraversion, getting tired of constant socializing. But, by the time I left (I was a sojourner), I found it hard to leave because I enjoyed the constant busy social atmosphere of Newfoundland and found other places (such as Ottawa, where I'm from) much more boring and slow-paced. I've found that the way I held myself in Newfoundland remains the same now, as if a piece of the culture will always remain with me.

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