Areas which affect culture shockNote: Culture shock affects one’s whole being but begins as minor jolts to ones system. But it is an increasing progression of jolts from the differences in many if not all of the following areas:
physical setting: geography, climate, fauna, flora, food, buildings social life: greetings, relationships, privacy, distance, times economic setting: poverty, unemployment, beggars culture: language, signs, ways of thinking, values, practices, beliefs government: structures, abuses health / hygiene: diseases, sanitation internal: goals, success, perfection, role changes (job and gender)
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