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Old April 14, 2010, 11:24 AM
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Cultural shock, have you ever experienced it? It can be rough!

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

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I can only imagine how difficult it is to get over having culture shock.

I sometimes feel "culture shock" here in the U.S.! I am almost always around people that don't speak English in places where there are a lot of Spanish speakers and I happen to be the minority......that induces culture shock for sure. But it is transient. I get over it and I try to assimilate. It is fun sometimes.

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Old April 14, 2010, 04:21 PM
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Reverse culture shock can be a lot worse.
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I sometimes love culture shock. Once in Madrid, I went to a tavern for a
glass of beer. In Spain it is traditional for the bartender to give the
patron a tapa gratis if you order a beer. This time the bartender gave me a bowl of potato chips topped with oily anchovies. This was a salty surprise.

Culture shock is often very educational. I read about things going on in other parts of my own country that give me the kind of culture shock that seems much stranger than potato chips and anchovies.
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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
It's interesting your contribution, I can't imagine and figure it, if I'm going to new place and country, well I believe that it's normal situation in the person is some disoriented in the new place more for the different culture that people who is placed here uses.

Now your commentary is very true, I have passed for that, when I need to serve in something in a new place, I have the habit of know first to the people and ask them about their culture.
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I sometimes love culture shock. Once in Madrid, I went to a tavern for a
glass of beer. In Spain it is traditional for the bartender to give the
patron a tapa gratis if you order a beer. This time the bartender gave me a bowl of potato chips topped with oily anchovies. This was a salty surprise.

Culture shock is often very educational. I read about things going on in other parts of my own country that give me the kind of culture shock that seems much stranger than potato chips and anchovies.
In parts of Spain. Strongest in Andalucía. Here if you want tapas you have to order a ración; the best you'll get otherwise is a few peanuts.
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In parts of Spain. Strongest in Andalucía. Here if you want tapas you have to order a ración; the best you'll get otherwise is a few peanuts.
¿En que parte vives tú? Tal vez algunos cacahuates son mejores que un
plato de menudencia...De que animal ¿quien sabe?
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not really though I can find Americans odd at times (I'm Chinese and I was born in Canada)
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¿En que parte vives tú?
En Valencia.
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In parts of Spain. Strongest in Andalucía. Here if you want tapas you have to order a ración; the best you'll get otherwise is a few peanuts.
It seems like to the food order of the MacDonald.
But I believe that that kind to food is same in all the whole world.
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