Cultural shock, have you ever experienced it? It can be rough!

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Cultural shock, have you ever experienced it?! It can be rough for some.

This is something muy importante to be aware of if you're going to live in another country
and or are learning another language.(Something that I personally have experienced a number
of tiimes.)Many people experience cultural shock even within their own country.(Let alone another
country.) For example a person who lives in a small town who goes to live in a big city. Then if you
move from a place that has a different dialect to another place of another dialect such as the
way people in the U.S. speak in New York and way they
speak in the south of the U.S.

When moving to another country that has a different language, food, reglion and cultural values,
culture shock can really be tough!

Culture shock' is a term used to describe the anxiety and feelings (of surprise, disorientation,
confusion, etc.) felt when people have to operate within an entirely different cultural or social
environment, such as a foreign country. It grows out of the difficulties in assimilating the new
culture, causing difficulty in knowing what is appropriate and what is not. This is often combined
with strong disgust (moral or aesthetical) about certain aspects of the new or different culture.

The term was introduced for the first time in 1954 by Kalvero Oberg. Other researchers
who have subsequently worked on culture shock include Michael Winkelman.

Culture shock is a research area in intercultural communication. Recently, some researchers
claim that culture shock does have many positive effects on intercultural sojourners, like
increasing self-efficacy and helping improve self-motivation