living in a foreign country
...foreign culture can be an exciting time for the individuals involved, but everyone can expect to be affected in at least some measure by culture shock. Maintaining a positive view of the opportunity helps keep associated depression at bay, but understanding of the stages and the fact that culture shock is common can be essential tools for those relocating either temporarily or permanently. Within the last decade, increasing high levels of poverty have been recorded in the minority and recent immigrant populations in Canada and the United States. In Canada, recent immigrants make up over 52% of those under the poverty line in urban areas. Traditionally, immigrants coming into Canada whether skilled or unskilled laborers reached the average Canadian income in less than 10 years after their arrival. Educated immigrants previously had attained average or above income. Within the last 10 years however, this has not been the case and educated and professional immigrants are among the poorest population group in Canada along with the uneducated minority immigrants. Part of this is because it had been felt that due to the decline in the labor market, empl...