I read some articules which talked about culture shock one of them talked about this situation from at a London university, it describes how workshops help foreigns students to overcome homesick and some students tell their experiences.
The second one talked about that the most important impact is when students come back their native country everything for they look rare.
With reading and listening practices I could practice this abilities and I could improve in it.
Moreover I could learnt more about this topic, comparing theory with real experiences.
viernes, 12 de septiembre de 2008
Culture shock articule "Old is new"
Old is new: Reverse culture shock
Scott Fabricant
Scene Reporter
Published: Monday, September 8, 2008
Updated: Monday, September 8, 2008
Correction Appended Below
Going abroad to a new country can be an eye-opening experience. A new town, a new school, new friends, a foreign culture, an unfamiliar language, the wrong side of the street. Adjustment can sometimes be difficult; it’s what is called culture shock. But sometimes, the return can be just as hard. Returning to an old school, old friends and an old way of life. It’s known as “reverse culture shock,” and being prepared for it can make the transition home far more peaceable. A fear that many students have about studying abroad is that their social landscape will change while they’re gone and that their friendships won’t be the same as when they left.“I always had the worry that people will forget about me or that it’ll be hard to resume being friends with those you weren’t really close with,” junior Kaity Li said. “Everything got put on hold [for me], but their lives were continuous. Where we left off may not be the same place now.”Another potential pitfall, perhaps a surprising one, is getting used to the “little things” again. The buses and trains, slang phrases, class attendance—as in, you have to go to class again. It takes some time to remember the old ways. “One thing I’m actually still getting used to more than two months after returning home is passing people on the right side [while] walking on the sidewalk, walking in aisles at stores, and walking up and down staircases,” senior Stefanie Klein said. “In Australia, people always pass on the left, and here it’s the opposite. I’ve walked into more than one person, because I forget what the social norm is here after spending six months in Australia.”Also, remember to watch your conversations. Professional study abroad guides warn returnees that talking about your experiences abroad can alienate your friends. They may not understand, they may be jealous and frankly, they probably won’t care. Much in the same way that asking “How are you?” is not an invite for a 10-minute whine about life, “How was your trip?” doesn’t mean they want to hear about bungee jumping in New Zealand. “It’s difficult to accept that when someone asks ‘How was Australia?’ all they really want to hear is ‘It was great,’ though I’d much rather sit them down for a few hours and ramble,” Klein said. “Months after my return, I find a way to incorporate Australia into every conversation I have, though usually I try to refrain from actually doing so. I force myself to be content with just thinking about it and not vocalizing it,” Klein said.Most people who had a good time abroad will be a little blue coming back, but in some cases, depression is a real possibility. Your time abroad can be an amazing, liberating experience. If you’re lucky, you can make fantastic friends, fulfill lifelong dreams, even recreate yourself from scratch, but coming home was a real crash. To this, I can speak from personal experience. My lifestyle of pure freedom was replaced by old routine, my social landscape had changed from its previous comfortable familiarity and worst of all, it was winter in America. Nasty case of reverse culture shock. Despite being glad to be reunited with friends, I was possessed by an all-consuming need to go back. For me, the cure was simply time, but the Universiy offers resources to help. For a truly severe case, Student Health Services offers counseling and psychiatry services. Uncle Joe’s Peer Counseling also offers their services. The Student Ambassador program run by the Overseas Programs Office is another useful resource.The office, usually encountered during the application process, also offers workshops on using your experience abroad to further your career, as well as social events such as the Returnee Reception, themed lunches and region reunion parties. For most, an experience abroad is a memory to cherish, and it provides stories to annoy your friends and impress strangers, but for some, experience abroad alters your lives in some way. Maybe it changes your outlook on life, or maybe it changes your activities (most study abroad ambassadors were returnees who loved their experiences and wanted to share them with others). However, for a rare few, it changes their futures. “When I returned from Fiji, I made a conscious effort to keep my experience alive,” 2008 alum Lieselot Whitback said. “I joined the study abroad ambassadors and began a personal tradition of Fijian Fridays. Even today I try to wear something Fijian every Friday; it brings color and fun to my life. I now plan to get a Masters [degree] in the field of intercultural communication or international education with the hope of someday being a study abroad administrator. It was such an important experience for me personally, I want to help bring the same sort of experience to other students.”Travel abroad—going somewhere new and out of your comfort zone—can and should be a life-altering experience. As Mark Twain said, travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. It’s also fun as hell, but it doesn’t come without its risks and problems. Life doesn’t stay static when you’re away, and neither do you. Knowing what to expect when you show up somewhere new, and knowing what to expect when you return, can make for more fun experiences and smoother transitions. Just remember why you’re going and what you’re coming home to.“I made some amazing friends while I was abroad and shared many experiences with them that people who weren’t there could never understand,” Klein said. “Still, I missed the friends from home I’ve grown up with and the friends from school I became so accustomed to living with and seeing daily.”
Source:http://www.studlife.com/scene/1.724169
This articule talk about cultural shock that many people live and experience when they go to other country totally dofferet to him or her.
The author said that the most important impact that abroad students has it presents when their returns to their native culture, they feel that everything has changed even their friends.
He describes this situation as reverse culture shock.
Scott Fabricant
Scene Reporter
Published: Monday, September 8, 2008
Updated: Monday, September 8, 2008
Correction Appended Below
Going abroad to a new country can be an eye-opening experience. A new town, a new school, new friends, a foreign culture, an unfamiliar language, the wrong side of the street. Adjustment can sometimes be difficult; it’s what is called culture shock. But sometimes, the return can be just as hard. Returning to an old school, old friends and an old way of life. It’s known as “reverse culture shock,” and being prepared for it can make the transition home far more peaceable. A fear that many students have about studying abroad is that their social landscape will change while they’re gone and that their friendships won’t be the same as when they left.“I always had the worry that people will forget about me or that it’ll be hard to resume being friends with those you weren’t really close with,” junior Kaity Li said. “Everything got put on hold [for me], but their lives were continuous. Where we left off may not be the same place now.”Another potential pitfall, perhaps a surprising one, is getting used to the “little things” again. The buses and trains, slang phrases, class attendance—as in, you have to go to class again. It takes some time to remember the old ways. “One thing I’m actually still getting used to more than two months after returning home is passing people on the right side [while] walking on the sidewalk, walking in aisles at stores, and walking up and down staircases,” senior Stefanie Klein said. “In Australia, people always pass on the left, and here it’s the opposite. I’ve walked into more than one person, because I forget what the social norm is here after spending six months in Australia.”Also, remember to watch your conversations. Professional study abroad guides warn returnees that talking about your experiences abroad can alienate your friends. They may not understand, they may be jealous and frankly, they probably won’t care. Much in the same way that asking “How are you?” is not an invite for a 10-minute whine about life, “How was your trip?” doesn’t mean they want to hear about bungee jumping in New Zealand. “It’s difficult to accept that when someone asks ‘How was Australia?’ all they really want to hear is ‘It was great,’ though I’d much rather sit them down for a few hours and ramble,” Klein said. “Months after my return, I find a way to incorporate Australia into every conversation I have, though usually I try to refrain from actually doing so. I force myself to be content with just thinking about it and not vocalizing it,” Klein said.Most people who had a good time abroad will be a little blue coming back, but in some cases, depression is a real possibility. Your time abroad can be an amazing, liberating experience. If you’re lucky, you can make fantastic friends, fulfill lifelong dreams, even recreate yourself from scratch, but coming home was a real crash. To this, I can speak from personal experience. My lifestyle of pure freedom was replaced by old routine, my social landscape had changed from its previous comfortable familiarity and worst of all, it was winter in America. Nasty case of reverse culture shock. Despite being glad to be reunited with friends, I was possessed by an all-consuming need to go back. For me, the cure was simply time, but the Universiy offers resources to help. For a truly severe case, Student Health Services offers counseling and psychiatry services. Uncle Joe’s Peer Counseling also offers their services. The Student Ambassador program run by the Overseas Programs Office is another useful resource.The office, usually encountered during the application process, also offers workshops on using your experience abroad to further your career, as well as social events such as the Returnee Reception, themed lunches and region reunion parties. For most, an experience abroad is a memory to cherish, and it provides stories to annoy your friends and impress strangers, but for some, experience abroad alters your lives in some way. Maybe it changes your outlook on life, or maybe it changes your activities (most study abroad ambassadors were returnees who loved their experiences and wanted to share them with others). However, for a rare few, it changes their futures. “When I returned from Fiji, I made a conscious effort to keep my experience alive,” 2008 alum Lieselot Whitback said. “I joined the study abroad ambassadors and began a personal tradition of Fijian Fridays. Even today I try to wear something Fijian every Friday; it brings color and fun to my life. I now plan to get a Masters [degree] in the field of intercultural communication or international education with the hope of someday being a study abroad administrator. It was such an important experience for me personally, I want to help bring the same sort of experience to other students.”Travel abroad—going somewhere new and out of your comfort zone—can and should be a life-altering experience. As Mark Twain said, travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. It’s also fun as hell, but it doesn’t come without its risks and problems. Life doesn’t stay static when you’re away, and neither do you. Knowing what to expect when you show up somewhere new, and knowing what to expect when you return, can make for more fun experiences and smoother transitions. Just remember why you’re going and what you’re coming home to.“I made some amazing friends while I was abroad and shared many experiences with them that people who weren’t there could never understand,” Klein said. “Still, I missed the friends from home I’ve grown up with and the friends from school I became so accustomed to living with and seeing daily.”
Source:http://www.studlife.com/scene/1.724169
This articule talk about cultural shock that many people live and experience when they go to other country totally dofferet to him or her.
The author said that the most important impact that abroad students has it presents when their returns to their native culture, they feel that everything has changed even their friends.
He describes this situation as reverse culture shock.
Cultural shock articule "workshop helps with culture shock"
Workshop helps with culture shock
Alexandra Cioper
Issue date: 9/12/08 Section: News
"Students from all different countries gathered together yesterday at the Photonics Center to learn about the most foreign culture of all -the culture at Boston University. More than 50 BU international students attended the second annual Culture Quest, a workshop sponsored by the International Students and Scholars Office. The workshop aims to create a network for the international students to feel more comfortable around school with a presentation and panel discussion, International Student Advisor Tana Ruegamer said. Ruegamer, who organized the workshop, said it is important for students to adapt to a new society without compromising their own values. "It is a negotiation process," she said. "You will be keeping parts of your identity and giving up parts of your identity."Students played icebreaker activities and had discussions to get to know each other and learn more about American values.A PowerPoint presentation explained the highs and lows of culture shock and provided tips on how to overcome it.Students hailed from Japan, Jordan, Korea and China, to name a few, and shared their feelings about how the United States is different from their home country. They also discussed the struggles and successes they have had adjusting life at BU.A student panel of three international students from China, Pakistan and Switzerland offered advice and answered questions from the audience. They urged the students to get involved in activities in school to create a support system and answered questions about how to cope with homesickness and adjust to the food differences.ISSO Associate Director James Leck said his office cut down the time of this year's workshop, made the presentation more streamlined and had better advertising, bringing in a larger turnout than the last year's Culture Quest. Leck said he hopes the workshop served as a sort of orientation for the international students to cater to their specific needs.
"I hope this starts you thinking about the cultural adjustment process and gives you some tools for your toolbox," he said.College of Arts and Sciences junior Arsla Jawaid, a panel member from Pakistan, said international students are not the only ones who must adjust, but everyone must do so."People around the world are the same," she said. CAS alumna Bansoa Sigam, a panel member from Switzerland, said patience is an important aspect of adjusting to a different culture. "The adjustment process is a rocky road, but it does happen at one point or another," she said.To maintain a support system from home, panelists suggested attendees use websites like Facebook and Skype as well and phone and email to keep in touch.CAS graduate student Dai Dai, who came to BU from China, said the panel discussion was her favorite part of the workshop because panelists voiced exactly what she has been experiencing, she said. "Now I know that the problems I am facing are because of the differences between my culture and the American culture, and now I can go about and try to fix them," Dai said. A second Culture Quest will address adjusting to the American classroom on Sept. 19."
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In this articule talk about culture shock at a university and the ways that they have to face it one their way is workshop, it is a kind of meeting where students from differet countries sahape their experiences from one another, in this disccussion there are people from Pakistan, China, Switzerland who give their point of view about this issue and give some alternatives to overcome it and to communicate with their family mainteinig contact withs their relatives, these ways are facebook, skype and phone.
This meeting help foreign people to feel more confortable in o
Alexandra Cioper
Issue date: 9/12/08 Section: News
"Students from all different countries gathered together yesterday at the Photonics Center to learn about the most foreign culture of all -the culture at Boston University. More than 50 BU international students attended the second annual Culture Quest, a workshop sponsored by the International Students and Scholars Office. The workshop aims to create a network for the international students to feel more comfortable around school with a presentation and panel discussion, International Student Advisor Tana Ruegamer said. Ruegamer, who organized the workshop, said it is important for students to adapt to a new society without compromising their own values. "It is a negotiation process," she said. "You will be keeping parts of your identity and giving up parts of your identity."Students played icebreaker activities and had discussions to get to know each other and learn more about American values.A PowerPoint presentation explained the highs and lows of culture shock and provided tips on how to overcome it.Students hailed from Japan, Jordan, Korea and China, to name a few, and shared their feelings about how the United States is different from their home country. They also discussed the struggles and successes they have had adjusting life at BU.A student panel of three international students from China, Pakistan and Switzerland offered advice and answered questions from the audience. They urged the students to get involved in activities in school to create a support system and answered questions about how to cope with homesickness and adjust to the food differences.ISSO Associate Director James Leck said his office cut down the time of this year's workshop, made the presentation more streamlined and had better advertising, bringing in a larger turnout than the last year's Culture Quest. Leck said he hopes the workshop served as a sort of orientation for the international students to cater to their specific needs.
"I hope this starts you thinking about the cultural adjustment process and gives you some tools for your toolbox," he said.College of Arts and Sciences junior Arsla Jawaid, a panel member from Pakistan, said international students are not the only ones who must adjust, but everyone must do so."People around the world are the same," she said. CAS alumna Bansoa Sigam, a panel member from Switzerland, said patience is an important aspect of adjusting to a different culture. "The adjustment process is a rocky road, but it does happen at one point or another," she said.To maintain a support system from home, panelists suggested attendees use websites like Facebook and Skype as well and phone and email to keep in touch.CAS graduate student Dai Dai, who came to BU from China, said the panel discussion was her favorite part of the workshop because panelists voiced exactly what she has been experiencing, she said. "Now I know that the problems I am facing are because of the differences between my culture and the American culture, and now I can go about and try to fix them," Dai said. A second Culture Quest will address adjusting to the American classroom on Sept. 19."
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In this articule talk about culture shock at a university and the ways that they have to face it one their way is workshop, it is a kind of meeting where students from differet countries sahape their experiences from one another, in this disccussion there are people from Pakistan, China, Switzerland who give their point of view about this issue and give some alternatives to overcome it and to communicate with their family mainteinig contact withs their relatives, these ways are facebook, skype and phone.
This meeting help foreign people to feel more confortable in o
Video regarding to Cultural shock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQtzQn1Rvc8
This video broadcasts five cases of foreigns. First person is from Botswana, second from Puerto Rico, Third one form Montreal Canada and last one is a couple who are from Africa, They tell their experiences and they describe what is cultural shock for them.
For I was good watch this kind of video so that I could practice listening, moreover I could learnt more about culture shock and I could see some cases which ones helped to me to understand better this issue.
Culture shock - International students in United States.
In this web site I could watch a video which talked about cultural shock in people from different countries who came to United States for different reasons.
This video broadcasts five cases of foreigns. First person is from Botswana, second from Puerto Rico, Third one form Montreal Canada and last one is a couple who are from Africa, They tell their experiences and they describe what is cultural shock for them.
For I was good watch this kind of video so that I could practice listening, moreover I could learnt more about culture shock and I could see some cases which ones helped to me to understand better this issue.
Cultural shock argumentative essay
Cultural shock
There are a lot of changes in people`s life that they have to face and they should adapt to them, some of these changes represent opportunities in order to a growth both personally and professionally. Among these life circumstances that bind them to change one can find shipments, business and studies trips, moving house and others situations which make people have to change their town, city, even their country. For people is difficult to assume these transformations however for some of them change is good for their life and they always are prepared to it. In these kinds of events it would be a good ask themselves ¿indeed are these kind of changes benefit a person or by contrast they can harm her or him and even a culture?
At present people are moving in a world where globalization has taken an important place, for that reason trips and cultural exchanges are important too. Moreover trips and living in another country have many advantages and sometimes these facts give a person a competitive advantage, for instance when one travels to other country, one can know other customs, another people, different landscapes and gain experience.
In addition when a person travels due to his or her professional responsibilities he or she can learn more in different things not merely in academic aspects besides of this sometimes in a foreign country may appear opportunities that a person should take advantage of them, opportunities in labor, professional or perhaps that person can improve his or her lifestyle.
In spite of these aspects previously appointed there is a fact that is indispensable to take into account as cultural shock, this is a feeling of anxiety that people experience when they arrive to whatever foreign country. A person should face a lot of strong issues and they have to be prepare to adapt to them, things like food, language, lifestyle, customs so on will influence on people behavior, for example when a Latin American goes to Asia particularly to China where Chinese people have different traditions and customs in many aspects like food, religious, governmental practices and polities these variety of issues are going to affect that abroad and in this situation that Latin American is going to feel a cultural shock.
To sum up and from my point of view I consider that traveling is a wonderful opportunity that anyone should take advantage of it, nonetheless when one is going to travel or a person has to live to a foreign country she or he must do a research about this country and it`s culture and trying to be prepared to manage change and adapted it.
Traveling and meeting new people always bring us more advantages than disadvantages and if opportunities appear in our life we have to take them and we cannot let to go them.
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