Social Mobility and Cultural Dissonance-Free-Samples for Students

Question: Discuss about the Cultural Dissonance. Answer: Cultural dissonance is the uncomfortable sense of disharmony, conflict, discord or confusion which is experienced by the people in the midst of variations in their cultural environment (Daenekindt, 2014). The day I migrated to Seattle the first few days were hectic since I was new to the part of the country. I decided to shop in a super market, and I requested one of the sales attendants for one specific ingredient that we used for cooking in my cooking list. The sales attendant did not understand the accent, and he invited the manager to offer help in understanding the language. Once the manager arrived to assist us, I gave the details concerning ingredient I required as per its use. The manager still was not in a position to understand the ingredient I was discussing and in the mid of my explanation, she made it known to me that, I should go and learn to speak the English that Americans in Seattle speaks (Heine, 1997). She responded this in a very high tone that almost all customers gazed at me as a result of the rude comment. I felt so offended and degraded due to the manner in which the manager addressed me before the other customers. As I come from a region where English is what we converse with each other, I am proud to say am in a cosmopolitan city. I never judge people based on culture race or accent. I always understand everyone. Bibliography: Daenekindt, S. and Roose, H., 2014. Social mobility and cultural dissonance. Poetics, 42, pp.82-97. Heine, S.J. and Lehman, D.R., 1997. Culture, dissonance, and self-affirmation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23(4), pp.389-400