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
For example, it states a sink being used for rinsing rice, but little do they know that the sink has a whole where food falls through. The toilet also, they need the knowledge to know how to use it and what it is used for.
The concept in this reading was that culture shock and the way someone who is foreign and is forced to come to an unknown place to live in. The textbook introduces the culture of people and the way they adapt to their traditions.
Migration makes it difficult for individuals to adjust to their new American home, but this initial disadvantage is a blessing in disguise because it provides
Emily Hervey, a licensed Clinical Psychologist , in her article "Cultural Transitions During Childhood and Adjustment to College” (2009), argues that a missionary kids past experiences with transitions will affect how they perceive current ones. She supports this claim by first demonstrating that missionary kids adapt to their foreign culture even though it is not their parent’s culture (p. 1-3), then she showed how this can lead to bad experiences when transitioning (p. 1-3), and finally she used statistics to prove that missionary kids who had bad experiences transitioning were more likely to have bad experiences transitioning into college (p. 7). Hervey’s purpose is to convince the reader that bad experiences early on in a missionary kid’s
Culture orientation paradigm acknowledges that culture differences and rules exist. Learning the cultures difference, norms, and rule will help prevent misunderstanding, embarrassment, and anger when groups are perceived to be a way that they are not. A person can study the differences in a culture and can be educated about a particular group. But still might not be able to provide adequate support or meet the cultures and group needs because of additional factors.
The Lee family is just one example of a family having to move countries and redefine their lives in this new place. All over the world, people move every day, to and from so many places. When moving within a country it is hard because you are still having to accommodate to this new society. However, here we are looking at the change from one country to another, completely changing cultures. When going through the initial culture change there are four stages: euphoria, cultural shock, anomie, and finally either assimilation or adaptation.
Intimate Colonialism is when the government tried to set up a policy that would encourage Indian Service staff members to intermarry with Native Americans. During the late 19th century, immigration was rising and the big thing in this era was assimilation. Assimilation is integrating people to be accustomed to the United States culture, behavior, value and norms. Though Native Americans have lived in America longer than anyone, the federal government thought that instead of ostracizing them for wanting to value their traditional culture, they created an assimilation policy for Native Americans.
“The government’s assimilation policy sought to destroy Native nations’ cultural and political identities by replacing them with Anglo – American norms of behavior (108).”
Nevertheless, when immigrating to the U.S. many newcomers find themselves lost the vastness of the contemporary culture this is known as culture shock. Since most people move to the U.S. from developing countries they are not used to the freedoms that America offers. An instance of this is when the speaker of the presentation came emigrated from Israel. At first inclination he found himself enthralled by the independence of Americans. Ironically, he soon became astray when traversing through the subway system.
Culture Shock-One of Common Problems in Intercultural Communication. Cross-Cultural Communication, 11(8), 71-74.
INTRODUCTION Do you think studying in a different country is something that sounds very exciting? Are you like many young people who leave home to study in another country thinking you will have lots of fun?
Teachers "You must go beyond and seek to understand the cultural context of each student" (Braley et al., 2016, pp. 259). Success looks different for each student and teachers should realize culture may be reflected in students' actions. Additionally, teachers may be teaching students at various comprehension levels and students with learning disabilities. In these instances, it is essential to learn about where difficulties lie for children and enhancing their learning by meeting them where they are with content they can
