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A Study of Culture Shock Summary: This article is due to have a further study of culture shock. It gives us its stages and the strategies of how to overcome culture shock. It not only offers us vivid pictures about what culture shock is but also what causes it. It is much likely to be a great help to those who will go abroad, especially go abroad for study or a rather long stay in a foreign country and I faithfully hope this will help people understand the idea of what here culture shock means and what it contains. Key Words: culture, shock In many countries in the world, men kiss each other when they meet, for example in Russia, France, Arab countries and some of the South American countries. That sounds shocked to some people. However, Men do not kiss each other in either China or English-speaking countries. French people kiss each other hello and goodbye more often than British people. These kinds of kiss, especially kisses between men or between women, may cause culture shock. People who live in one place and have their own culture may feel terribly shocked or stressed when they suddenly stay in another different place and have to meet a different culture. If two Chinese men kiss each other, they are mostly regarded as gays, which will surely cause a kind of culture shock. Culture shock may happen almost everywhere. That’s because people in the world, even though they are from different places or countries, are mostly accustomed to their own way of life. If the differences between life at home and life in a new place happen, culture shock occurs. Let’s take “Touch” for example. Generally, people from English-speaking countries do not touch each other very much. If you touch an English person, you should say “Sorry”. Scientists have done some research on “Touch” in different countries. They watched pairs of people who were sitting in college coffee-shops for at least an hour. They counted the number of times that the people touched each other: Count