One of the things that I learned this week is that just because something is custom in our country, doesn't mean that people from other countries share that same custom. We learned that just because someone looks like they may be one thing doesn't mean that they are! This kind of stuck with me because of what we are going through here in Williston and in other parts of North Dakota right now. I have become very frustrated because where I work we have a lot of foreign people here on a work exchange trip that come in to the bank. With the language barrier it is hard to understand what they are trying to tell you or ask you and that makes things extremely difficult when you are trying to answer their questions correctly. I really hadn’t thought about the fact that they are from a different country and that just as we cannot understand them, they also cannot understand us. I think that this week kind of put things in a different perspective for me. I learned that I do need to be more patient with things when all I am being is frustrated.
With this oil boom and the town being overpopulated all of the people that are originally from are all becoming very frustrated very fast, including me. And even though most people are just from another state, things are also different from the way we do things as well. Just as we have to adjust to them being here, they also need to adjust into coming into a new place as well. They basically have taken over the town and they do not realize that not everything will change for them to make them feel at home. It is our home too and has been for a while so the natives in this town are refusing to budge which is causing a lot of controversy. I think that these situations tie in perfectly with what we began talking about even if it isn’t about other countries.
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