{"id":2454,"date":"2024-02-22T16:36:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T09:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2024-02-22T16:36:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T09:36:33","slug":"culture-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/en\/culture-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"CULTURE SHOCK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Culture shock is a ubiquitous topic not only for international students when they first set foot in a strange country with new things about language, lifestyle, customs, and traditions, but also for international students. with anyone when they encounter a new situation, culture, or region in their own country that they do not recognize.\u00a0This article will discuss three main points including culture shock, four stages of culture shock, and some ways to deal with culture shock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/soc-van-hoa-du-hoc.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/soc-van-hoa-du-hoc.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/soc-van-hoa-du-hoc-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/soc-van-hoa-du-hoc-256x113.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/soc-van-hoa-du-hoc-474x209.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/soc-van-hoa-du-hoc-396x175.jpg 396w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/soc-van-hoa-du-hoc-310x137.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/soc-van-hoa-du-hoc-418x185.jpg 418w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/soc-van-hoa-du-hoc-425x188.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/soc-van-hoa-du-hoc-201x89.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/soc-van-hoa-du-hoc-492x217.jpg 492w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/soc-van-hoa-du-hoc-415x183.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/soc-van-hoa-du-hoc-395x174.jpg 395w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/soc-van-hoa-du-hoc-535x236.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Adler (1981), culture shock is a set of emotional reactions to the loss of familiarity from one&#8217;s own culture to the stimuli of a new culture with which we have little knowledge. or do not clearly understand the meaning of things, events or phenomena or experience new things and can lead to misunderstandings (page 13).&nbsp;In other words, people who do not have enough information about the place they are going are likely to experience culture shock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scholar Oberg (1954, 1960) was the first to introduce the term &#8216;culture shock&#8217; to describe the experience of migrants from one culture to another.\u00a0Oberg defines culture shock\u00a0<em>as the overwhelming anxiety caused by losing all of our familiar signs and symbols of social interaction<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to scholar Oberg (1986), some examples of culture shock are given such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Anxiety about the food of a new place or country,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Students from grade 12 to university,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A person from the countryside comes to the city to live or work or visit relatives<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Switching jobs from one company to another,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doctors and medical staff from the North to the South during the recent COVID-19 period have shown that in the fight against the epidemic, they are not immediately familiar with the dishes or spices of the South, or vice versa, or vice versa.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anxiety when interacting with members of other countries, the feeling of not wanting to learn the language of the host country, the feeling of wanting to return to one&#8217;s own country, the place of one&#8217;s birth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, the issue of culture shock is an important point to be discussed because this issue is constantly present in daily activities in broader areas such as ideology and social institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1140\" height=\"459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock-256x103.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock-474x191.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock-396x159.jpg 396w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock-310x125.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock-418x168.jpg 418w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock-425x171.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock-201x81.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock-492x198.jpg 492w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock-645x260.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock-415x167.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock-395x159.jpg 395w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/du-hoc-tan-con-duong-vang-culture-shock-535x215.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1140px) 100vw, 1140px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, we will discuss the stages of culture shock.\u00a0According to research in psychology and anthropology by Oberg (1960), there are four stages of culture shock<strong>:\u00a0excitement stage, crisis stage,\u00a0adjustment stage, and\u00a0acceptance stage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>According to Oberg (1960), the first stage is\u00a0<\/em><strong>the interest\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>stage.\u00a0<\/strong>This stage is also known as the infatuation stage the honeymoon stage or the excitement stage about new things or exciting new experiences.\u00a0Newcomers often enjoy a very fun, happy, beautiful, exciting time and are less afraid of the culture of the new place.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After phase 1, the excitement will gradually decrease.\u00a0We will move to the second phase,\u00a0<strong>the crisis\u00a0phase.\u00a0<\/strong><em>Oberg (1960) describes how people in\u00a0this crisis often exhibit unpleasant, hostile, and aggressive attitudes toward the new place and begin to form and develop prejudices.\u00a0This stage is characterized by feelings such as loss, apathy, confusion, disorientation, isolation, self-blame, feelings of inadequacy, and loneliness.\u00a0Personal crises can occur.\u00a0This may be a result of the above problems increasing and having more negative experiences.\u00a0Newcomers to a new culture may develop feelings of helplessness and confusion that come with a lack of control and a desire to go home and\u00a0for example the culture shock of a\u00a0crisis\u00a0period<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The third stage&nbsp;<\/em><strong>is the adjustment stage<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 At this stage of adjustment, people are often in a new environment or abroad for a while and they realize that they have to accept differences and deal with problems. with humor or with a survivalist attitude<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>The fourth stage is\u00a0<strong>the acceptance stage<\/strong>.\u00a0After tourists go through a learning process, individuals are likely to adopt a new culture.\u00a0It is at this point that we go through the final stage of adaptation or acceptance.\u00a0During this stage, newcomers to a new place often accept the new culture as a different way of life.\u00a0They begin to understand and accept the culture of the place they come from and realize that they are living in a new environment and that this environment will not change for them and that they must adapt to this new situation and the example of the new generation. stage of adapting and\u00a0successfully building relationships\u00a0with family and\u00a0friends abroad<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/dos-and-donts-for-international-students-1636336059.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/dos-and-donts-for-international-students-1636336059.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/dos-and-donts-for-international-students-1636336059-300x159.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/dos-and-donts-for-international-students-1636336059-256x136.jpeg 256w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/dos-and-donts-for-international-students-1636336059-474x252.jpeg 474w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/dos-and-donts-for-international-students-1636336059-396x210.jpeg 396w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/dos-and-donts-for-international-students-1636336059-310x165.jpeg 310w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/dos-and-donts-for-international-students-1636336059-418x222.jpeg 418w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/dos-and-donts-for-international-students-1636336059-425x226.jpeg 425w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/dos-and-donts-for-international-students-1636336059-201x107.jpeg 201w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/dos-and-donts-for-international-students-1636336059-492x261.jpeg 492w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/dos-and-donts-for-international-students-1636336059-415x220.jpeg 415w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/dos-and-donts-for-international-students-1636336059-395x210.jpeg 395w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/dos-and-donts-for-international-students-1636336059-535x284.jpeg 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, culture shock can make you feel tired, sad, lonely, and lost.\u00a0This is something that most of us encounter all the time, especially when going to a strange place, but thanks to that we always know how to solve them to survive better.\u00a0Here are some\u00a0<strong>effective ways to overcome culture shock:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First, acknowledge your feelings of being overwhelmed by your surroundings and believe that you are not alone because there are many people like you;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Next, everyone has more or less experienced culture shock;&nbsp;Therefore, the best way is to carefully prepare culturally, or observe to behave appropriately in the current situation;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Next, when we encounter something new or different, or if we do not understand, we should boldly ASK to more accurately understand the layers of meaning behind words and behaviors in communication;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In addition, if we dare to go beyond our comfort zone to be open to accepting new things and differences, cultural shock will gradually decrease and we will integrate better and communicate more effectively with people;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finding people who understand multiculturalism or empathize with you to share your feelings and participate in exchanges, classes, groups, workshops, and seminars on multiculturalism will help you become a change agents and help you. help others like yourself;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finally, joining the family according to custom is important because each place is different so we should not immediately impose our outlook on life and worldview into one culture.\u00a0We should learn, share, exchange, adjust, and adapt to good and new things, and become people who understand, respect differences, and empathize.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, we would like to close the topic of culture shock. We hope that the above knowledge will help you have better cultural shock responses based on a scientific basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Author: MSc.&nbsp;Doan Thi Ngoc &#8211; Teacher of Faculty of Social Sciences and Law &#8211; Hoa Sen University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1-256x115.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1-474x213.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1-396x178.jpg 396w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1-310x140.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1-418x188.jpg 418w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1-425x191.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1-201x90.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1-492x221.jpg 492w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1-645x290.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1-415x187.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1-395x178.jpg 395w, https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2023\/03\/1-535x241.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Adler, N.J. (1981).\u00a0Re-entry: Managing cross-cultural transitions.\u00a0<em>Group &amp; Organization Studies<\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0<em>6<\/em>\u00a0(3), 341-356.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oberg, K. (1954).&nbsp;<em>Culture shock<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;(p. 1).&nbsp;Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scirp.org\/(S(351jmbntvnsjt1aadkozje))\/reference\/referencespapers.aspx?referenceid=2849837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scirp.org\/(S(351jmbntvnsjt1aadkozje))\/reference\/referencespapers.aspx?referenceid=2849837\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oberg, K. (1960).\u00a0Cultural shock: Adjustment to new cultural environments.\u00a0<em>Practical anthropology<\/em>, (4), 177-182.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture shock is a ubiquitous topic not only for international students when they first set foot in a strange country with new things about language, lifestyle, customs, and traditions, but also for international students. with anyone when they encounter a new situation, culture, or region in their own country that they do not recognize.\u00a0This article will discuss three main points including culture shock, four stages of culture shock, and some ways to deal with culture shock. According to Adler (1981), culture shock is a set of emotional reactions to the loss of familiarity from one&#8217;s own culture to the stimuli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2686,"featured_media":1531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,129,111,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-thong-tin","category-en-thong-tin-noi-bat","category-news-events","category-en-chia-se-chuyen-mon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoasen.edu.vn\/khxh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}