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Culture Shock & Marriage Scripts

Culture Shock is a term that originated in Anthropology. Researchers found that when they went to a different country to study cultures that things were so very different than what they were used to. This gave them considerable discomfort in having to deal with everyday life.  Have you ever been to a different country or even a different state and found that things were very different than what you expected? Maybe it took you a long time to figure how to do something that was just second nature where you grew up. Sometimes there are little things that are confusing such as figuring out how to flush the toilet and sometimes there are big issues to deal with such as where and how to buy groceries.  

Marriage can be considered to be a culture shock. Even though we are all familiar with marriage from our families, friends, and the media, when we personally enter into marriage, it can be a culture shock.  One reason is that people have different "marriage scripts." Marriage scripts are marriage norms. They tell us and our partners how we should act and what our roles should be when we are married. We often learn our marriage scripts from our families. Before we get married, we tend to believe that everyone has the same scripts, so we do not often discuss what we expect from each other before we get married. When we find that others have different scripts, we tend to think that our marriage scripts are the way that things should be and other people's scripts are "stupid."  

Here is your Discussion Forum #1: (You must separate your answers into paragraphs)

Paragraph 1: Other than not agreeing on marriage scripts, in what other two ways can marriage be a culture shock? In other words, describe two ways in which your life changes after you are married that can lead to culture shock, even if you were living together before marriage.

Paragraph 2: Describe two of your marriage scripts in detail. 

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