Four stages of cultural shock

There are four stages of cultural shock: honeymoon period, depression (or hostility) period, recovery adjustment period and adaptation period. Cultural shock refers to the mental symptoms of deep anxiety caused by cultural conflict and inadaptability when a person enters a strange cultural environment, with feelings of loss, doubt, rejection and even fear.

Four stages of cultural shock

Cultural shock is very common in immigrants, or when ethnic groups with different cultural backgrounds in a society have undergone fundamental changes because of their cultural living environment.

The main reason of cultural shock is that different cultural backgrounds bring different ways of thinking, values and behaviors.

Cultural shock is not a disease, but a learning process, which can also be called a new cultural experience and psychological feeling.