The Importance Of Culture Shock

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2.2. Students understand the value and meaning of culture when experiencing culture shock.
It is essential for students experiencing culture shock to understand the importance of culture. This is because students, who are in the process of adjusting themselves, experience bewilderment and discomfiture when facing the new environment. This leads them to be extrinsic and timid when dealing with their peers. Students then gain knowledge about the different things or events in the new environment, and thus, they begin to adapt. As a result, students extend themselves to the different aspects in the new environment to which was originally foreign to them.
Students experience the Crisis phase of culture shock. This is the time wherein the students, according to Unite For Sight (n.d.), “become frustrated by difficulties communicating and performing basic tasks.” Changes in the new environment may cause stress. A person may experience confusion and discomfort in the new environment that can cause a great stress to a person experiencing culture shock. People will have difficulties in learning the new culture when anxiety and depression becomes deeper (Xia, 2009, p. 99). According to our interviewee, Ms. Bermoy, transfer students in San Roque Catholic School usually consult her when they feel discomfort in dealing with the new environment may it be because of the school, the classmates or the food. Some of the students push themselves to be part of the environment and some quit. By