Category: Culture Shock

Deconstructing Cultural Shock Experiences In Diasporic Poetry To provide context, culture is an integrated system of learned behaviour patterns, wherein meaning is transmitted from generation to generation. According to Fisher, it represents specific attitudes and feelings of any given groups of people, which put simply is a system of shared meaning (qtd. in Kocak 64).…

Essay on Lycanthropic Culture Shock Interestingly, the narrator highlights the fragments of otherness in [her] body and yet chooses to dismiss them through his hunger to find beauty. When he first meets her eyes, he notes that they hold a strange look of greed, amounting to craving within them. According to Carolyn Burdett eyes are…

Essay on Culture Shock: Phases and Ways of Overcoming Introduction Students are usually exposed to cultural, social and intellectual experiences when they move from their home country to a foreign country. Culture shock is therefore the anxiety and emotional disturbance experienced by people when two sets of realities meet. The term was first named by…

Issues of Culture Shock Faced by International Students The complex changes confronting the world today, particularly those resulting from the impact of globalization and technological revolution, have radically transformed the world in every aspect, especially the higher education field. By creating new systems of knowledge, learning and education furthermore breaking the boundaries of space and…

Role of Culture Shock in Peoples Sociocultural Life Background: There is evidence that Culture Shock plays a crucial role in the development of peoples sociocultural life nowadays. This term makes reference to the set of reactions that an individual may experience when coming into contact for the first time with a culture different from their…