Public Speaking Draft

Topic: Culture Shock

Opening: Using storry telling to open the presentation --> bisa combine
dgn question.

Question: Can you imagine find a small sealed clay pot, get excited then
decide to take it home only to find out from the locals that there is a
stillborn baby inside? Or how do you feel when you find out that a word
that's often used as dirty word or an insult turns out to be an endearing
nickname in other regions? When you are faced with a situation like
this, what will you do? Are you just going to sit silently and think, start
an argument, or decide that this isn't something that needs to be
discussed further.

Ladies and gentlemen, My name is Hanifah Amini and in the next few
minutes I will talk about culture shock. From what exactly is culture
shock to how to overcome it.

Body of presentation:

Point I:

According to Mulyana and Rakhmat (2006), culture shock is the anxiety

experienced by losing all the symbols that are familiar in social
relations, including the habits that we do in everyday life, for example,
when do we have to shake hands? What should we say when we meet
someone? How to buy? When and where we do not need to respond.

In short Culture shock refers to feelings of uncertainty, confusion, or

anxiety that people may experience when moving to a new country or
experiencing a new culture or surroundings. Culture shock had us
walking in eggshells because we were afraid of making mistakes that
would offend the locals.

Culture shock stage

Culture shock generally moves through four different phases:

honeymoon, frustration, adjustment and acceptance. While individuals
experience these stages differently and the impact and order of each
stage varies.

- Honeymoon Stage

In this stage, people tend to think taht the trip or move seems like the
greatest decision ever made, an exciting adventure to stay on forever.

The first stage is often very positive. Travelers become infatuated with
the language, people and food in their new environment.

- The Frustration Stage

Frustration may be the most difficult stage of culture shock and is

probably familiar to anyone who has lived abroad or who travels
frequently. At this stage, the fatigue of not understanding gestures,
signs and the language sets in and miscommunications may be
happening frequently, even small things like loosing a key mayt rigger
frustation.

- The Adjustment Stage

During the adjustment stage, frustrations are often subdued as
travelers begin to feel more familiar and comfortable with the cultures,
people, food and languages of new environments.

- The Acceptance Stage

During the acceptance stage, travelers have the familiarity and are able
to draw together the resources they need to feel at ease.

How to overcome it

1. Do one difficult thing per day

Like buy a grocery.This can make you feel familiar with the
surroundings

2. Talk to others

talk to anybody who is sharing that experience with you because they
can truly empathize.

3. Take time for yourself

4. Practice acceptance

The sooner you accept how different everything is, the sooner you feel
like they are really home.

5. Focus on how it will feel on the other side

Culture shock is one of those things that when you’re in the moment it
feels like it’s never going to end. But, as soon as you’re out of it, you
realize you’ve learned so much about yourself.

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