The Lost Boys Adapting New Culture

The Lost Boys, Peter as one out of the four thousand other Sudanese youth that step migrated to America had a several problems that he had to face to assimilate the American culture, after they lived with their own traditional lifestyle for many years from their childhood. As these boys lives in America, they will be more educated as other people would, and would have a good future for themselves, and their families and down to many generations.

Peter in Houston, America had to learn the laws of the country and even laws that are not very much important, such as how people should act towards each other. In the beginning, peter and his friends talked about how brothers and friends hold each others' hand while walking is normal in Sudan, in which in America, they knew that they should only walk like that with a girl, or the Americans would think that they are homosexual is what they said. It is also hard for people like him to fit in, because they said that they were darker than other black people in this country and so some of the Americans thought that people that are darker means they are bad, but Peter tries to act nice and polite to fit into their society and prove that people like him aren't mean.

One of their instructor had also introduced him to the supermarkets where they buy food and also their friends where they bought him fast foods like burgers, and back then in their country, they make their foods instead of buying them, and that would be a big different that they mostly buy foods in America which they would probably will get use to it.

Peter then moved to Kansas where he became a new senior in school, and he was also working in wall mart as a trolley cart man, and so then he had a busy live, making money and attending school at the same time. In school, he also met a church group and one of his friend was in it, he then joined it, but the way that these American does their religious thing was different from peter's cultural way, in the party, he was the only one not singing which i think that it made him felt left out. Then he also joined the Basketball camp tryouts since he really like basketball and as he also played it in Sudan.

Peter dealt with cultural shock well, he didn't have difficulties for a long time, probably oProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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y for 3-4 month and after he moved to Kansas, I think he had a better life, and he felt more confidence of making friends and fitting in with them by attending their side activities. I think that it was worthy for him to go to America and learn about their culture because American's culture is almost spread to every country in the world, like in the very beginning, Peter and his friends had no idea how to eat the foods in the airplane that they went with, and by now he would probably has an idea of the right way he should eat it, and the same as other things that he didn't do it right when he was just new to the culture.