Survival In Georgia Part III

Hi everyone, I hope that everyone who read my last two entries would have understood so far what kind of difficulties students face when they are entered into a new society without knowing anything about it. Today I'll continue with the next important thing that students face as a hurdle once they enter into a foreign land and in my case it will be Tbilisi the capital of Georgia. The third case that I'm taking into discussion today is the "New Society".

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Society :

Some may ask how does a new community can affect the normal life of a new person into that community? The fact is that whenever you are introduced into a new community of people away from your homeland or your own community everything the new community does casually would be something weird or strange for your sight. This can be well explained by taking some scenario's into consideration. The first one I would like to take is Alcoholism & Smoking - Most of the South Asian countries consider smoking and drinking as an act of disgracefulness when done in public and the people don't offer any respect to those people who drink. There are certain rules made by the government in favour of this, for example - Chennai, one of the important metropolitan city in India has a strong law prohibitng smoking in public places because smoking not only injures the person who smoke but also the people near by him who accidentally inhales the smoke and subjected to passive smoking making them suffer serious health consiquences. On the other hand in a near by state called Kerala as far as I know the sale of tobacco and tobacco products has been completely banned. I won't say that, since few places in India has banned such activites, means that its good and the other places are bad. I want to convey that smoking and drinking alcohol are a person's private interest and one can do such things unless and until it is confined ultimately to him without causing any disturbances to the people around him. Smoking and drinking excessively can cause a lot to people who are unaware of the community.

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Consider this scenario, Today is the new year eve and you and all your friends go together for the public concert held at a place on open grounds. Since its new year everyone who are used to the community would have consumed alcohol in gallons and now ultimately in a period of severe psychic condition such as hallucinations and dellusions. It may be a part of their partying activities or tradition but the excessive stimulation of their brain's limbic system makes them to do things they are unaware of. They start getting into trouble and bugging the people who appear different to them. Such acts although done by a very few countable people all it does is it will make the person who have been a victim to loose respect on the country they are staying especially if they are from an entirely different community and have never experienced such kinds of activities. This won't stop here, the news spreads among people and in future if some foreign person or anyone asks about the country and people their reply would be absolutely worse about the country. On a whole due to an act of disgracefullness an entire country or a community may loose its respect among other foreign people. The point that I want to make clear here is that though you drink a thousand gallon it won't matter to anyone unless that thousand gallon disturbs another persons mood. All the reputations that a foreigner have gained about the country over a period of time will be lost in minutes.

I guess it's enough with the above topic of alcoholism and smoking now its time to think what are the other factors that are lying in front of us a hurdle in joining a foreign community. The next thing that I consider to be important is the "Attitude Of The People". When it comes to a new community then it definitely has classes of people belonging to it and its neseccary for the people in that community to recognize and welcome the foreigners so that they may feel a bit relaxed to adapt themselves with the new community they are about to live in for the period of their study or whatever it may be. Since a person looks different from you, speaks a different language doesn't mean that the person is strange or crazy because for that person's sight the entire community will appear as a bunch of crazy people. All that is needed to establish a good relationship is that making the new one to understand their culture, tell the person about their own way of life etc because it is easy to make understand a single person than a single person trying to convince a whole community of people. Moreover that single person doesn't belong to that particular and that's the reason he sees the other people who are in that place different. It may take time depending on the additional factors that are needed to achieve this. For example inorder to know about the people of a particular place you need to know their language which by itself is an obstacle for a new foreign life.

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According to my view the three criteria's that I have mentioned here are the ABC's that make foreigners or especially the students life in a new land a hard time. If the local people understand that the foreigners are here trusting that the people of this new community as their own and make other local people to understand this it would make that particular place a peaceful land for both the locals and the foreigners. Thanks for reading and till my next entry keep smiling cheers.

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