Academic English Skills

Academic English
Skills

Preparing for Culture shock
Culture shock is defined as feeling of confusion, uncertainty, confusion or anxiety which
individuals have to face while doing business or sustaining within society which is different from
the home country. The culture shock is defined as the experience of an individual with unfaliliar
things and culture. The social norms can differ around the regions and countries. The culture
shock can arise for unfamiliarity of person with the local customs, language and acceptable
behaviour. The culture shock is generally most intense at the starting of staying in foreign
country in a good manner. There are different types of preparing for a cultural shock. This is
important as it is useful in learning regarding the new culture. The main aspects while staying in
different culture are communication, time difference, climate, conflict resolution, transportation,
taboos, technology, ethical practices, etc. A term known as “ecoshock” is defined as some
traumatic, acute reaction to an identifiable event. This is basically the reaction physiological and
psychological reaction any new thing, culture or reaction. The main problem faced while
travelling to another country is that individual's biological clocks have problem while
synchronising with the local time. Another thing which an individual has to face problem is
physiological adjustment and this includes managing the temperature, humidity, warmth,
altitude, etc. These aspects are ones which are coped within the initial stages of cultural shock.
There are few individuals who keep travelling to another country and this is the reason they
frequently face ecoshock.