Culture Shock

Culture Shock

1. How can I cure culture shock

   • Don't panic
   • Takes time. Prepare yourself for cultural adaptation
   • Pursue information gathering; be mentally, physically and socially active and ask for help

2. What causes culture shock?

   • Cognitive
     • Major cultural differences in systems of thought
   • Behavioral
     • Individuals do not know the systems of rewards and punishment associated with the verbal and nonverbal behaviours
   • Phenomenological
     • They can not use their own cultural references to convey and validate central aspects of their identity in the new culture
   • Socio-psychological
     • Individual's capacity for effective social interaction and cultural dissimilarities and feelings of loneliness with and in the host members.

3. What is Culture shock

   • "The anxiety that results from losing all go our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse"
     • • The breakdown of interpersonal communications
         • • Increase intercultural understanding
           • Learning experience
           • enhancement of self-efficacy
         • Have positive effects
       • Identity crisis
       • The loss of familiar cues
     • Have three causals