I found myself thinking sociologically when I overheard a comment a girl made about another's nightly routine. For the sake of following along, we'll say girl A made the comment about girl B's routine. Girl B said that she usually had dinner at 8 p.m with her family. Girl A's reaction went something along the lines of a very dramatic stop in the hallway, not minding the rushing traffic of students, and exclaming at the top of her lungs that that was "so weird" and "your family should eat at 6 like mine."
Immediately, I noticed both culture shock and ethnocentrism. Girl A's reaction displayed both emotion relating to a different culture and a statement implying that girl B should do things in the way that girl A does them, leading to the ethnocentric remark.
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