Culture Shock文化冲击.pdf

Culture Shock As we all know, it is defined as culture shock that someone who comes to a completely new cultural environment will experience a psychological anxiety and confusion. Culture shock is a long-term topic under the trend of globalization. Culture shock is a common phenomenon that reflects the lack of direction, the feeling of not knowing what to do or how to behave in a new environment, and not knowing what is appropriate or inappropriate. The feeling of culture shock generally appears after the first few weeks of coming to a new place. For example, Lucy was transferred to work abroad, when her family moved to Mexico from California after a period of time, she tried to understand people speaking a different language, to go to the store, to make new friends, to overcome the confusion and helplessness. So she began to suffer culture shock. What situations Lucy met is a miniature of all people who suffer culture shock. They are like fish out of water, away from familiar motherland and close relatives, lonely struggling in a strange country that differs from the original country in values, ideology, communications, eating habits, styles and so on. Meanwhile, new things threaten the basic belief in the subconscious mind that the original cultural customs, assumptions, evaluation and behavior is always right. What you are familiar with are taken the place of something new. You would feel as if your heart was suddenly stolen leaving a gray blank and losing in a helpless, lone and cold circumstance. Like the shadow of your original culture disappeared all of a sudden. Maybe you like to do something based on the adult, but you always feel like an ignorant child. In the end, you would become vulnerable, frustrated, upset, irritable, may also suffer from homesickness and depression. Culture shock and change in degree depends on the following conditions: firstly, the length of your stay. The longer time you stay in a strange atmosphere, the