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Summary Of The W-Shape Adjustment Model

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The W-shape Adjustment Model helps us understand the immigrants' experience of crossing cultural and communication boundaries, in that it enables us to see just what they might be going through when joining a new culture. Through the model we can see that there are several stages to entering a new culture. At first the immigrants feel excited for a new experience, they look forward to exploring their new home. However, once they get past the initial excitement, culture shock really sets in and they often feel emotional upheaval, which can often lead to many of them returning back to their native home. That being said, if they get past this stage the model shows that eventually immigrants' are able to laugh at the difference they experience,
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