Shock Culture Model

"Culture shock is a very real experience for many people who move to another country. Another who has lived or studied or even traveler extensively in another country has tasted and lived through culture shock. At the time it may fll more like homesicknees."

Culture in anthropology, the patterns of behavior and thinking that people living in social groups learn, create, and share. Culture distinguishes one human group from others. It also distinguishes humans from other animals. A people culture include their beliefs, rules of behavior, language, rituals, art, tehcnology, style of dress, way of producing and cooking food, religion, and political and economic systems. Anthropologists commonly use the term culture to refer to a society or group in which many or all people live and think in the same ways. Likewise, any group of people who share a common culture and in particular, common rules of behavior and a basic form of social organization constitutes a society. Thus, the terms culture and society are somewhat interchangeable. However, while animals live in societies, such as herds of elk or packs of wild dogs, only human have culture.

Culture develop together with the evolution of the human species, homo sapiens, and is closely related to human biology. The ability of people to have culture comes in large part from their physical features: having big, complex brains; an upright posture; free hands that can garsp and manipulate small objects; and a vocal tract that can produce and articulate a wide range of sounds. These distinctively human physical features began develop in African ancestors of humans more than four million years ago. The earliest physical evidance of culture is crude stone tools produced in East Africa over two million yeas ago.

Sign and symptoms of shock culture :

1. A feeling of sadness and loneliness
2. An over-concern about your health
3. Headaches, pains, and allergies
4. Insomnia or sleeping too much
5. Feelings of anger, depression, vulnerability
6. Trying too hard to adapt by becoming obsessed with the new culture
7. Feeling shy or insecure
8. Overwhelming sense of homesickness.

Step 1 : The Honeymoon Stage
Like any new experience, there is a felling of europhia when you first arrive to a new country and People in awe of the differences you see and experience. People feel excited, stimulated, enriched. During this stage, people still feel close to everything familiar back home.

Step 2 : The Distress Stage
Everything people experiencing no longer feels new; in fact, it is starting to feel like a thick wall that is preventing you from experiencing things. People feel confused, alone and realize that the familiar support systems are not easily accessible.

Step 3 : Re-integration Stage
During this stage, people start refusing to accept the differences you encounter. People angry, frustrated and even fell hostile to those around their self. People start to idealize life "back home" and compare your current culture to what is familiar. People dislike culture, the language, the food. People reject it as inferior and even may develop some prejudices toward new culture. It is normal for people adjusting. This is actually a pretty common reaction to anything new. Think back before any adjustment can cause for us.

Step 4 : Autonomy Stage
This is the first stage in acceptance. People like to think of it as the emergence stage when start to rise above the clouds and finally begin to feel like their self again. People start to accept the differences and feel like they can begin to live with others.

Step 5 : Independence Stage
You are yourself again !! People embrace the new culture and see everything in a new, yet realistic light. They feel comfortable, confident, able to make decisions based on your own preferences. People appereciate both the differences and similarities of your new culture and start feel at home.