Multicultural Experience Paper

Multicultural Experience Paper

Introduction

Every day in our life, we network with diverse kind of people possessing exceptional individuality based on cultural differences (Bornstein & Davis, 2010). A Thai food restaurant recently started its operations in my neighborhood locality about a month ago. I normally do not prefer eating Thai food, but the manifestation and endorsement of the Thai restaurant motivated me to have a special experience in my life. My perceived notions about Thai culture and Thai people were greatly influenced, when I made a visit to the place to analyze the effect of group influence on the self.

Thai Restaurant Experience

A Thai food restaurant recently opened in neighborhood locality at a distance of one kilometer from my residential place. Thai restaurant was offering an assortment of Thai food dishes at reasonable price structure. Therefore, I thought to visit there along with my friends. I was quite restrictive in visiting the place due to my perceived negative notions about Thai people and Thai culture. Nearly every day, I hear so many negative things about Thai people in respect of narrow-minded thinking of people, poverty that made me correlate relatively neurotic negative viewpoint about their living style and attitude towards life.

There is nothing neither democratic nor rational in the phenomena of group psychology that could have made me to perceive positively all the things prior to experiencing the cultural learning from restaurant visit (McGraw, 2001). In other words, imagine a person in whose company, we do not experience the confidence of the group. Thai culture is highly different from our culture. Its depth factors are different from a western culture (Kislenko, 2004). It characterizes their personality based on their action, approach towards seeing the world, and how do they define themselves to other people in comparison to reality (John, 2000). I agreed to visit the place with my friends, but there were many things that made me restrictive to interact with Thai people at the restaurant. Similarly, I had many doubts about the quality of food I was going to experience with my friends, and the kind of treatment that we would have to see; perhaps I was mistaken and not the group that was defining the strength of my beliefs about the Thai group.

Preconceived Notions about Experience

The process of human adaptation to the group, and adjustment of man to the ambiguous, complex is often quite long. Similar things were affecting me when I visited the place. I thought that Thai people have limited knowledge of people psychology and are quite rude. Often, many influences from a group of people long resisted many effects he perceives only partially, some completely denies it (McGraw, 2001). I perceived that their sense of intellectual capacity is quite limited. Similarly, I thought that people belonging to core Thai culture are less spontaneous and caring towards humanity. They are quite introvert and prefer to be limited in their own group. Other thing that was instigating my fear was the interaction of Indians with ...