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Culture Shock

①DEFINING CULTURE SHOCK 定义

Culture shock is a mental state（心理状态） that comes from the transition that occurs when you go from a familiar environment to an unfamiliar one and find that your old, established patterns of behavior are ineffective.

culture shock can cause you to feel “out of sorts,” “fatigued（疲劳）” and “not wholly （完全的，全部的）in the moment.”

②REACTIONS TO CULTURE SHOCK 反应

prepared when you experience some of these reactions

Antagonism（对抗） toward the new environment

A sense of disorientation（方向，障碍，迷惑）

Feelings of rejection（拒绝）

Upset stomach and headaches

Homesickness

Missing friends and family

Feeling a loss of status and influence

Withdrawal（撤退）

Perceiving（感觉） members of the host culture to be insensitive（感觉迟钝，不友好） ③THE STAGES OF CULTURE SHOCK (THE U-CURVE) (过程，步骤) You should view the stages as a U-shaped curve. “The U-curve depicts the initial optimism（乐观，乐观主义） and elation(兴高采烈，欢欣鼓舞) in the host culture, the subsequent dip（向下再向上） in the level of adaptation, and the following gradual recovery.

Excitement Phase.

The first phase, visualized（在脑海中使形象化，设想，想像） as the top of the left side of the U-curve（U曲线）, is usually filled with excitement, hopefulness, as the individual anticipates