Culture Shock

Areas which affect culture shock

Note:  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)

  • Symptoms