Rural Mississippi Culture Shock Analysis

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I experienced culture shock we all do, as I have learned in this class, one of the most memorable was in rural Mississippi, when we went on a cross-country trip. My brother, his wife and I spent some time there with her relatives. I was the only city boy there, and while everyone was wonderful to me, I couldn't help feeling like a minority person with all the southern twang. They wanted us to stay there for dinner, and they had just been talking about the squirrel they had in the freezer, so my brother insisted on taking them out to dinner. Rural Mississippi was still quite a shock to me. Being a city boy, gay and being a young teen in the late 80s was a kind of a shock. It can be difficult to be the minority only, in the room, and I

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