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Culture Shock And Adaptation By Michael Winkelman

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Now, let’s move to the second stage. The frustration stage refers to the period of rejection. You start having trouble dealing with transportation problems, schoolwork, and communications. It seems like people no longer care about your problems. Everything tries to be annoyed, lack of control and become disappointed. According to Michael Winkelman in the article "Culture Shock and Adaptation", a sense of lack of control of one 's life may lead to depression, isolation, anger, or hostility. Excessive emotionality and fatigue may be accompanied by physical or psychosomatic illness. That is the most serious symptoms in the frustration stage. You begin to feel lonely and isolated. For example, I started to hate school because I can 't

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