culture shock
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Nurul syuhada bt zulkefli
DEFINITION OF CULTURE SHOCK
Culture shock is the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar
way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country, or to a move between social environments, also a simple travel to another type of life
FACTORS OF CULTURE SHOCK
( 1)Cultural differences - The outcome of Culture Shock appears to be a function of the differences between the own and the foreign
culture.
(2)Individual differences - This aspect refers to differences in personality and the ability to cope with new environments. It also includes demographic variables such as age, sex, socio-economic class, and education.
(3)Sojourn experience - The experiences
sojourners have and the treatment they receive from members of the host society have a
strong influence on the adaptation process.
PREVENT OF CULTURE SHOCK
Learn as much as you can about your new country of residence.
Take the initiative to make new friends.
Be determined
to avoid
comparisons.
Keep an open mind.
Resist the desire to
judge others because you
don’t understand
them.
EFFECT OF CULTURE SHOCK
Feeling of disorientatio
n
Behaviours and attitudes which were necessary for obtaining goals
in the culture we learned are no longer useful.
Deeply emotionally felt, even when we do not realize it.
l.We typically assume people who behave differently are
wilfully immoral.
To get beyond the reactions of culture shock requires a self-
conscious effort to understand the reasonableness of other people’s
way of life.
SOLUTION
Provide early
education to children
Increase the
beneficial places
Organized activities beneficial
to teenagers
CONCLUSION
Culture shock is certainly a disturbing
impression but it is not that sudden as the term shock
implies
Culture shock is a shock caused by being confronted with a
different culture but there is fair more to the
concept than that.
REFERENCES
Macionis , John and Linda Gerber .
Chapter 3 – Culture
7th edition ed : Toronto , ON .
Pearson CanadaInc 2010
Furnham , Adrian/Bochner , Stephen ‘Social
diffulculty in a foreign culture an empirical analysis in Bochner
Stephen” Oxford 1982
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