Singapore is such a multi culture country, where difference people with different culture background assembled, the variety cultures bringing more funny into our daily life but unfortunately sometimes causing conflict too.
During my third year at NTU, I stayed in HALL2. My neighbour, A, was a exchange student from Brazil, his a very funny guy, we became friend soon later. But one thing made us no longer talk to each other.
It was 10 clock at night, I decided to go to sleep earlier for tomorrow’s exam, but the loud music outside made me crazy, I knew, it was party from A again, I eventually failed to ignore the sound and shout outside:”Excuse me! you guys do have exams soon, don't you?! why not go back and take a rest?!” To my surprise, one people in the party reply to me confidently:”Hey, we are resting now!”, talk became quarrel soon. And the quarrel ended up with lose-lose situation. They stop their party disappointedly and I became too angry to sleep well all over the night.
Few months later, I read a website, which stated that people from Brazil often party at night, especially after 10 pm. I suddenly realised at that night, I should have said something that take their culture background into more consideration. This accident actually, from then on, reminds me about the importance of choosing the correct way of dealing with people from different cultures. I should first understand other people’s culture, and identify the potential conflict, then try to avoid conflict and if necessary, solve the conflict with the culture difference in mind.
