Transcript Culture is everywhere

Culture is everywhere
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Why do we want to understand others’
cultures?----better understanding enhance
better relationship
How to understand others?
Enlarging our frame of reference,
Suspending judgment, and
Asking why (Part 2, p. 39 Principle)
Culture Shock
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Definition of Culture Shock: the anxiety
and frustration which we experience in a
situation where all our former experience
fail to help us interpret and adjust to a new
culture.
Symptoms of Culture Shock:
(See Part 2, p. 47)
Culture Shock
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Cause of Culture Shock:
Language:
Relationship: being separated from old
relationship and building new relationship
Routine:changing in shopping patterns,
transportation, banking, recreation, cooking,
medical care, driving habits, patterns of
communication,…
Physical Health: hygiene, infectious disease,…
Identifying Expectations
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Check your expectations against the reality:
(See Part 2, p. 56)
Dealing with Violated Expectations:
Stop: thinking about what happened and your
feelings, monitoring the negative thoughts that go
through your mind
Suspend judgment: being aware the judgment
your are making, keeping an open mind, seeking
further information and pursuing understanding.
Ask why:Understanding comes to those who
patiently seek answers to their confusion.
Square Heads and Round
Heads
Cultural Adjustment Map
Websites
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Culture Shocks
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http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/shock.h
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http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/ethno.h
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http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/path.ht
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http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/kwast.h
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Website
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Culture Shocks
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http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/mono.htm
http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/sing.htm
http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert.fs/reentry.htm
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/CGuanipa/cultshok.htm
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Culture Adjustment
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http://www.buildabridge.org/Training/SevenStages/7stage
s.html
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