UNIT 9
Intercultural Adaptation
Reading Ⅰ
Adapting to a New Culture
Reading Ⅱ
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Further Reading Ⅰ
Sojourner Adaptation
Contents
Adapting to a New Culture
Culture shock:
It refers to the transition period and the panying feelings of stress and anxiety a person experiences during the early period upon entering a new culture.
Symptoms
Physiological such as a constant headache, an upset stomach, and sleeplessness.
Emotionally based such as anxiety, irritability, extreme homesickness, loneliness, excessive concern over health and safety, and feelings of powerlessness.
Communication based such as withdrawal from relationship and conversation, plaining, frustration, and munication.
Suggestions
Do not e over-reactionary.
Meet new people.
Try new things.
Give yourself periods of rest and thought.
Work on your self-concept.
Write.
Observe body language.
Learn the verbal language.
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Ethnocentrism
It refers that one'munication style is natural and normal to evaluate other styles negatively. Such evaluation is likely to elicit a defensive reaction, forming a mutual negative evaluation that stems from blindness toward differences between cultures.
Case Ⅰ
Americans may evaluate Japanese munication style as “ambiguous”, while American directness may be received by Japanese as “immature”. The American, sensing Japanese reluctance to confront a problem, es even more personal and aggressive. The Japanese, reacting to an embarrassing social indiscretion, es even more formal and indirect.
CaseⅡ
An American student listens with growing impatience to a Nigerian student, who is responding to a simple question about his religion with several long stories about his childhood. Finally, the American breaks in and makes her own point clearly and logically. The American evaluates the Nigerian negatively as being stupid (for talking “in circles”). The Nigerian evaluates the American as being childish (for being unable to un
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