French expatriates coming in Shanghai
I ve been in Shanghai for an internship during six months one year ago.That´s why I was very interested to make a research paper about french expatriates coming in Shanghai in order to talk about the cultural differences they can be faced to.
Shanghai is a very big city composed by 20 million of inhabitants.Can you believe it?
Shanghai is composed by 13 million chinese people living in and 7 million of expatriates people. I will try to show you in my research paper that even if an expatriate can feel well in Shanghai because he can find a lot of expatriates, the adaptation is not very easy and french people can experience culture shock.
The first part of my research is more theoretical and general. I explain more deeply the meaning of expatriate and what are the predicatable success and failure factors of expatriates.I explained that some people have some characeristics that we can see before they go which show us that they will have more facilities or less facilities to adapt themselves to a such different culture.
Then, in my second part I tried to analyze the behavior of a french people coming to Shanghai explaining all the different steps in the cultural shock. I gave a lot of example of what I exprerienced and what I learned by being a foreign in this city. I tried to show that a french will have to be very patient and very intereseted in the chinese culture instead of being relectant to this culture.
Finally, I made an interview of a french expatriate who works with me last year nd who has been there since 6 years. He will bring to my research paper more concrete elements and some feelings which can make more trustful my research.
In conclusion I will talk about what I felt duing this period and why I want to come back as soon as I can.
I hope my topic will interest you and that you will learn more about chinese culture and how the life in Shanghai is.
Lucie