As I mentioned in my introduction post that I'm originally from Sudan. I'm also known as a "Lost Boy" of Sudan. I'm one of about 300 young Sudanese Lost Boys and Girls who came to Phoenix, Arizona in 2001 as a result of the long Civil War in Sudan. I have been living in Phoenix for unbelievable nine years. However, I feel like I have only been living here for three years because I have so much to learn about the United States culture.
As you can tell from the title that I always get caught between the two cultures. I attempt to balance them, but sometimes it does not work. There are so many different conflicts I have to deal every sun set. Not to mention a problem with a hand shake mess, but also I still have difficulties adapting other things such as food and eye contact. Food is so much different here. The ingredients in food makes it taste and smell different.
Eye contact is also a big problem for me. I was raised not to have a direct eye contact because it has strange meanings in Dinka culture. Well, it completely has the opposite meanings in the United States. However, I still cannot manage to have a constant eye contact and people judge me as untrustworthy and insincerity individual.
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