culture shock Flashcards

1
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Antropologist have coined the term ‘culture shock’ to describe the effect that immersion in the strange culture ____:

1.) has upon the visitor who is unprepared
2.) is having on the unprepared visitor
3.) has on the unprepared visitor
4.) has in the unprepared visitor
5.) have on the unprepared visitor

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  1. has on the unprepared visitor
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It is what happens when familiar psychological clues that help an individual to function in society are suddenly withdrawn and ____:\n1.) is replaced by new ones\n2.) were replaced by new ones\n3.) are being replaced with new ones\n4.) replaced by new ones\n5.) to be replaced by new ones

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  1. replaced by new ones
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But most travelers ____ that the culture will be there comforting them upon their return:\n1.) have the comforting knowledge\n2.) have the comfortable knowledge\n3.) have the knowledge that is comforting\n4.) are comforted through the knowledge\n5.) find knowledge comforting

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  1. find knowledge comforting
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Will I be there ____ waiting for their return:\n1.) returning to them\n2.) to return back to\n3.) when they return back\n4.) to return to\n5.) waiting for their return

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  1. waiting for their return
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____ rate of change within a society:\n1.) produced from the great accelerated\n2.) produced of the greatly accelerated\n3.) a product produced by the greatly accelerated\n4.) a product of the greatly accelerated\n5.) a product of the great accelerated

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  1. a product of the greatly accelerated
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____ the superimposition of a new culture:\n1.) It rises from\n2.) It arose from\n3.) It arises from\n4.) It has risen from\n5.) It has been rising from

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  1. It arises from
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But its impact is ____:\n1.) very worse\n2.) far worse\n3.) the worst\n4.) far worst\n5.) surely worst

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  1. far worse
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Take an individual out of his own culture and ____ in an environment sharply different from his own:\n1.) set him down with suddenness\n2.) seat himself down suddenly\n3.) sat down suddenly\n4.) set him down suddenly\n5.) suddenly sit him down

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  1. set him down suddenly
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Then cut him off ____ to a more familiar social landscape, and the dislocation he suffers is double severe:\n1.) from any hope of retreat\n2.) from no hope of retreat\n3.) with any hope of retreating\n4.) with no hope to retreat\n5.) from having any hope of retreat

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  1. from any hope of retreat
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Moreover, if this new culture is itself in constant turmoil, and if worse yet ____ the sense of orientation will still be further intensified:\n1.) their values are incessantly changed\n2.) its values are changed incessantly\n3.) the values it has are not changed incessantly\n4.) its values are incessant changes\n5.) its values are incessantly changing

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  1. its values are incessantly changing
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