What are the manifestations of cultural shock?

Cultural shock is manifested in that when a person works in a new environment, there will be an exciting period at first. During this time, people feel fresh, excited and passionate. However, after this period of excitement, people will enter a period of cultural shock.

Cultural shock generally goes through four stages: honeymoon period, depression (or hostility) period, recovery and adjustment period and adaptation period. There are cultural differences between people, and wise and successful international managers should properly control these differences and make them their core competitiveness.

In the process of "going out", if we can't correctly understand and overcome the "cultural shock", it will not only cause huge economic losses and waste of time for the company, but also cause incurable trauma to the psychology and family of the failed expatriate manager.

Extended data:

Cultural shock is often caused by suddenly being in a different cultural life environment or being separated from the original cultural life environment for a long time, and then returning to its original cultural life environment; It may also be caused by being loyal to two or more cultural psychology at the same time. When ethnic groups with different cultural backgrounds undergo fundamental changes due to their cultural living environment, cultural shock is common among immigrants or in a society.

The research on cross-cultural and socio-cultural changes, mental state and mental health has attracted more and more attention from various countries and nations. So it's reported all over the world. For example, Danish scholar Mirdar conducted a survey of female Turkish immigrants and found that most of these female immigrants have psychological and physiological reactions, most of which are nervous.

Besides illness, occupation and crowded living, the reasons are also related to the long-term separation of husband and wife, education level, religious beliefs, conflicts between values and lifestyle and local cultural and living environment, language barriers and other factors. At the same time, these immigrants have serious psychological anxiety, helplessness and depression.

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