After we play that game, we can feel there is a culture shock. So, what is the definition of culture shock? According to Arthur Gordon, culture shock is loss of emotional balance that someone suffered when he moved from a familiar environment in which it is functioning properly and successfully to the place where he had to start from begining again and learn to function properly in the new enviroment. Why does it happen? As long as we live, our own culture becomes ingrained through habit, learned behavior
Indonesia is multicultural country, it have more than one cultures describing what Indonesia is. Indonesian cultures include those of forest-dwelling hunters and foragers, rice growers, fisher folk, village artisans, urban office and factory workers, intellectuals, artists, wealthy industrialists, street vendors, and homeless people. They involve villagers in customary societies, sophisticated and cosmopolitan urbanites, as well as people who struggle to survive on city streets: beggars, peddlers
Abstract Communicating successfully with people from different cultures can be a real challenge. Cultural differences may lead to tensions, arguments, and even wars between peoples and nations. This paper deals with one of the most common problems in intercultural communication cultural shock, it introduces its concepts and basic traits, causes and symptoms, stages of adjustment and strategies of overcoming culture shock with the aim of improving intercultural communication competence for smoothing
Cross-cultural adaptation, is a concept which describe the possible reactions given by individuals to a new cultural framework. These reactions may vary from completely adopting to completely rejecting the social norms of the host culture. (Eisikovits & Shamai, 2001; Sigad & Eisikovits, 2009). According to some scholars such as Searle and Ward (1990); Berry and Sam (1997); Ward et al. (2001) cross-cultural adaptation has two dimensions, including psychological adjustment and sociocultural adjustment
chapter, is a review of the literature associated with culture shock, the chapter will cover the definitions, history and conceptual framework of culture shock under which the causes and symptoms of culture shock, the various stages of culture shock and the training of expatriates before they embark on their sojourn will be considered. Then the scope and importance of studies on culture shock will be discussed, followed by diverse culture shock models, and a brief description of the chosen research
teaching English. However, when teachers and students come from different cultures, many difficulties the foreign teachers meet easily realized in the classroom. These can be due to different social positions, to interaction teacher/ students, etc. This paper begins with cultural aspects that make overseas lecturers shocked when teaching in EFL contexts in Vietnam and then presents some potential solutions to adapt the culture shock and deal with these difficulties through answering to two research questions:
Early studies which go back to 1930s, basically focus on the socio-anthropological aspect of the issue as parallel with the definition above. In those studies, researchers are mainly concerned with the nature of the adaptation processes of a particular ethnic community contacting with a culture different than theirs. (Berry, Kim, Minde & Mok, 1987; Goldlust & Richmond, 1977). STUDY EKLE Based on the first studies investigating remote tribes, immigrants and refugees, it has been revealed that assimilation
Introduction to the Study Culture is defined as the way of life of a people. Culture involves the behaviour, the language, the dressing and the religion of a populace, as well as what is acceptable and what is not acceptable to a specific group of people. Culture shock; therefore, relates to the emotional tension experienced when a person moves from a culture he or she is familiar with into one that is totally unfamiliar. Solomon (1994) stated that culture shock is an emotional and psychological
The Definition of Cultural Sensitivity among Expatriates Based on my understanding, the cultural sensitivity among expatriates are refers to the culture that need to be adapted by individual when go working at the outside country. That individual called as expatriate. Means, expatriates have to understand the culture of organization when they are going or were move to the firm that outside country. This is because, the culture at outside country are too different. That’s why expatriates have to understand
to the international student’s psychological wellbeing and academic effects. Culture shock is a very collective problem and brings influence to the international students who which to get better education in a foreign countries. Culture shock simply means the effect you might sense once you arrive into different culture. However, number of international students around the global are increasing steadily. Culture shock is exact shared problem and brings impact to the international students who