CULTURE_CLEFT_RMC - Rogelio Manríquez Cobián

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Rogelio Manríquez Cobián 29/05/20 
Homework Culture 
 
Instructions: Create two short stories. The first one an experience about cultural 
shock or something related with culture. The second one you have to rewrite the 
story but, in this case, you have to use the structures of cleft sentences using 
emphasis in some of the aspects that you considered important. Underline the use 
of cleft sentences. (300-400 words of each one) 
 
Story 1: 
While many of us experience culture shock when we travel outside our own 
country, I think it’s just as easy to experience culture shock when traveling to new 
places within your OWN country. For me, I grew up in a very small town in West 
Virginia, so I definitely experienced some culture shock when I moved to NYC. 
When you grow up in a small town, you tend to know most people and if you don’t, 
you will still say hi to strangers you see in the store or on the street. In NYC, 
though, this just isn’t done! People don’t make eye contact here and tend not to 
talk to people they don’t know. I remember how odd it was when I first moved into 
my apartment building. There were 90 apartments in the building, and you’d see 
people in the laundry room or mail room and they would completely ignore you! It’s 
easy to see why people who don’t live here may think that New Yorkers are cold 
and uncaring. 
However, after you spend some time in NYC, you learn that this really isn’t true. If 
you stop a New Yorker and ask for directions, almost all of them will be very happy 
to help you. Also, New Yorkers tend to come alive and will start talking to strangers 
when there is some sort of shared experience, such as getting stuck on the 
subway together, witnessing someone doing something strange, or during 
emergency situations like hurricanes and blizzards. Eventually, I learned that New 
Yorkers aren’t cold. We just spend tons of time with A LOT of other people all day 
long, so when you see us on the street or on the subway and we’re keeping to 
ourselves, we’re really just trying to take a few quiet minutes to think, read, listen to 
music, whatever. It takes a little while to get used to if you’re a country girl like me, 
but eventually you settle into this New York way of life. 
 
 
 
 
 
Story 2: 
While many of us experience culture shock when we travel outside our own 
country, I think it’s just as easy to experience culture shock when traveling to new 
places within your OWN country. For me, What happened was a grew up in a very 
small town in West Virginia, I experienced some culture show when I moved to 
NYC.When you grow up in a small town, you tend to know most people and if you 
don’t, you will still say hi to strangers you see in the store or on the street. In NYC, 
though, this just isn’t done! People don’t make eye contact here and tend not to 
talk to people they don’t know. I remember how odd it was when I first moved into 
my apartment building. There were 90 apartments in the building, and you’d see 
people in the laundry room or mail room and they would completely ignore you! It 
was easy to see why people who haven´t lived here may think that New Yorkers 
are cold and uncaring. 
 
However, after you spend some time in NYC, you learn that this really isn’t true. If 
you stop a New Yorker and ask for directions, almost all of them will be very happy 
to help you. Also, New Yorkers tend to come alive what will start talking to 
strangers when there is some sort of shared experience, such as getting stuck on 
the subway together, witnessing someone doing something strange, or during 
emergency situations like hurricanes and blizzards. Eventually, I learned that New 
Yorkers aren’t cold. We just spend tons of time with A LOT of other people all day 
long, what when you see us on the street or on the subway and we’re keeping to 
ourselves, we’re really just trying to take a few quiet minutes to think, read, listen to 
music, whatever. It takes a little while to get used to if you’re a country girl like me, 
but eventually you settle into this New York way of life.