How to Deal with Culture Shock.doc

How to Deal with Culture Shock 导读：就爱阅读网友为您分享以下“How to Deal with Culture Shock”的资讯，希望对您有所帮助，感谢您对92的支持! How to Deal with Culture Shock Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they have to offer without allowing them to dominate you. --Thomas Kettle Fish out of Water Living at home, we never think about culture. Culture to humans is like water to fish--the fish never stops to reflect on what it means to live in the water. It just swims and goes about its normal routine. But if you take the fish and throw it on a patch of sand, water takes on a whole new meaning. The fish flops around desperately looking for the water it never knew it had! I was literally quot;stuckquot; on a train, all alone, on my way from Bangalore to Hyberabad--about a 17-hour train ride. All of a sudden I felt lost. I was in a foreign country where I did not speak the language and looked nothing like the dark hair, eyes, and complexion of all the bodies that surrounded me and continued to stare at me after four hours of being on the train with them. Feelings of fear, anxiety, complete unawareness of who I was, uncertainty of getting back to the ship, and a desire to see some familiar faces filled me. However, I knew I was on a train bound for another part of this country called India. How could I get back to Madras in a hurry before I had an anxiety attack? (From Paul Pederson, The Five Stages of Culture Shock) The experience of culture shock is