Test 2 Flashcards
5 areas of potential stress
a. Being stared at.
b. Language barrier.
c. Smells.
d. Paperwork/documents.
e. Beggars
Define culture shock
a sense of confusion and uncertainty sometimes with feelings of anxiety that may affect people exposed to an alien culture or environment without adequate preparation
How to handle the unfamiliar:
Learning how to learn is the most important culture learning skill
4 conditions of culture shock:
a. Emotional anxiety.
b. Disorientation.
c. Discomfort.
d. Overwhelming sense of incompetency.
The competent sojourner ______ with culture.
Copes
Coping is a matter of handling something __________ that might otherwise become a problem.
Effectively
Expatriate
Someone living in a foreign country
Repatriate
Someone returning to their own country.
Define repatriate
Someone returning to their own country.
5 ways of coping with culture shock
- Gather information
- Look for logical reasons behind the strange and unfamiliar
- Fight off temptation to take out your frustration on the people of the host country.
- Discover and affiliate with a person of the host country who can help you interpret experience
- Have faith in yourself and in the underlying good will of those in the host country
Define chauvinism
Undue partiality or attachment to a group or place to which one belongs or has belonged to.
________ leads to breakage.
Rigidity
There is nothing but trouble ahead for a person who resists _________.
Adaptation
The overseas experience provides every sojourner the occasion for looking _______ at the values and beliefs held most dear.
Carefully
Staying in one’s own society, especially living out of one’s life among those who share the same sub cultural values, is likely to cause those values to become more a matter of ______ than of reasoned thought.
Habit
