Culture is everywhere

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Culture is everywhere

• Why do we want to understand others
  cultures?----better understanding enhance better
  relationship
• How to understand others?
• Enlarging our frame of reference, Suspending
  judgment, and
• Asking why (Part 2, p. 39 Principle)

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Culture Shock

• Definition of Culture Shock the anxiety and
  frustration which we experience in a situation
  where all our former experience fail to help us
  interpret and adjust to a new culture.
• Symptoms of Culture Shock
• (See Part 2, p. 47)

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Culture Shock

• Cause of Culture Shock
• Language
• Relationship being separated from old
  relationship and building new relationship
• Routinechanging in shopping patterns,
  transportation, banking, recreation, cooking,
  medical care, driving habits, patterns of
  communication,
• Physical Health hygiene, infectious disease,

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Identifying Expectations

• Check your expectations against the reality (See
  Part 2, p. 56)
• Dealing with Violated Expectations
• Stop thinking about what happened and your
  feelings, monitoring the negative thoughts that
  go through your mind
• Suspend judgment being aware the judgment your
  are making, keeping an open mind, seeking further
  information and pursuing understanding.
• Ask whyUnderstanding comes to those who
  patiently seek answers to their confusion.

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Square Heads and Round Heads
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Cultural Adjustment Map
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Websites

• Culture Shocks
• http//home.snu.edu/hculbert.fs/shock.htm
• http//home.snu.edu/hculbert.fs/ethno.htm
• http//home.snu.edu/hculbert.fs/path.htm
• http//home.snu.edu/hculbert.fs/kwast.htm

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Website

• Culture Shocks
• http//home.snu.edu/hculbert.fs/mono.htm
• http//home.snu.edu/hculbert.fs/sing.htm
• http//home.snu.edu/hculbert.fs/reentry.htm
• http//edweb.sdsu.edu/people/CGuanipa/cultshok.htm
  
• Culture Adjustment
• http//www.buildabridge.org/Training/SevenStages/7
  stages.html