Culture shock follows a predictable pattern of stages when traveling to a new country, according to the document. The stages include an initial "honeymoon stage" where everything is seen in a positive light. This is followed by a "frustration stage" where differences in language, customs and values become apparent and adjustment is difficult. Eventually, a stage of adaptation and familiarization occurs where one learns to recognize and feel comfortable with the new culture. Understanding that culture shock progresses through these stages can help travelers cope with challenges and ultimately gain valuable cultural learning from their experiences abroad.
Culture shock follows a predictable pattern of stages when traveling to a new country, according to the document. The stages include an initial "honeymoon stage" where everything is seen in a positive light. This is followed by a "frustration stage" where differences in language, customs and values become apparent and adjustment is difficult. Eventually, a stage of adaptation and familiarization occurs where one learns to recognize and feel comfortable with the new culture. Understanding that culture shock progresses through these stages can help travelers cope with challenges and ultimately gain valuable cultural learning from their experiences abroad.
Culture shock follows a predictable pattern of stages when traveling to a new country, according to the document. The stages include an initial "honeymoon stage" where everything is seen in a positive light. This is followed by a "frustration stage" where differences in language, customs and values become apparent and adjustment is difficult. Eventually, a stage of adaptation and familiarization occurs where one learns to recognize and feel comfortable with the new culture. Understanding that culture shock progresses through these stages can help travelers cope with challenges and ultimately gain valuable cultural learning from their experiences abroad.
To my mind, culture shock is like a Romantic Story, starting with an intense
attraction of the surrounding and trilled by the new panoramas, followed by a bunch of disagreements and ending with a feeling of adaptation and familiarization. All relationships are unique but have a similar path between them and thats what happens with the culture shock due to traveling to another country, thats why understanding every stage of culture shock would help you in the next trip. The Honey Moon Stage, the good side of everything. From what I can gather this is the best stage of culture shock, seeing for the first time a new world, overlooking any flaws of the country and getting infatuated with the languages, people and food in these new surroundings, visualizing a full tour of emotions. Unfortunately, it appears the Frustration Stage, the stage of disagreements. This stage is when your opinion, language, way of life, customs and values differ from this new real life, its the most difficult phase that we are required to pass in order to adjust and to adapt ourselves. Then, when the chaos disappears, oneself starts to recognize the culture and to get familiarized with it, allowing you to put together the resources you need to feel at ease. To conclude, knowing about all of those stages let you know that there always will be a dark side of traveling, but at the end those experiences will worth it because you will learn from a new culture. Rodrigo Andrs Rios Abarca.
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