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Looking Back To My First Month In Australia

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Looking back to my first month in Australia, I was very confusing with the difference culture. I tried to understand culture shock by asking, searching and reading from many sources to improve my knowledge about this difference culture to tackle my confusion. I had a lot of culture shock experiences and these are two examples which is attitude toward skin colour and attitude of legal prostitution.

The first cultural difference that I encounter is attitude of Thai and Australian toward skin colour. I remember the situation when I went to Briton beach. It was very sunny day. During I was finding tree shade to hide, I saw a lot of people had sunbathe on the beach. They wore bikini or shorts and their skin was very red and become darker. I was very …show more content…

They find the way to bleach their skin. Inversely, white people want to have tan skin. I my opinion, sunbathe is not good for skin because after sunbathing skin will be hurt and peel. After the moment, I guessed that Australian might have different conceptions about beauty skin and I asked my boss about this issue because she used to work in skincare shop. She told me some Australian believe that tan skin is healthy looking. According to Dixon et al. (2014) perception of tan skin is looking and felling more healthy. In young women, furthermore, their friend believed that suntan is a good thing and they like to have tan skin. This positive attitude towards tan skin tend to have perceived peer norm especially in young women. These believe and attitude may be the reason for tan fashion in Australian culture. In contrast, Thai have attitude toward fair skin. In one hand, some study explain light skin increases confident, self-esteem and sex appeal (Alghamdi cited in Cuny & Opaswongkarn, 2017). On the other hand, fair skin is a key factor in building a civilised image reflecting that the fair skin might be identified as an urban stereotype while dark skin might be identified as a

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