CULTURE SHOCK

"Culture shock", this is familiar with new immigrants, especially for international students. What is culture shock, why do people have culture shock, and how to fix it. These questions were answered briefly and completely in the lecture. According to the lecture, the professor state that culture shock was caused by culture,language, environment, tradition and people's behavior. she also told us the defense mechanism, and there were 4 defense mechanism which is repression, regression, isolation, and rejection. Moreover, she provided the stages to help people to overcome culture shock. She admited the stages in short way : first, people will have culture shock when they first move to another culture, they will be sick afterward, and they have to find way to solve and fix it, then they will get better. It is similar with the case when people get physical sickness,for exmple, when people get cold, they will have medicine and get better after that. It is hard for people to get over the culture shock since they acquire their own culture. They need time to learn and accept the new culture. The professor suggest people to talk to other people, they should go to school or go out for making friend instead of staying at home. She also mention some advantage of living in new culture to encourage people such as people will have more chances to learn new culture, or they will acknowledge more clearly their own culture by learning new culture.


This lecture is an valuable and useful lecture. Not only does it explain the meaning and reason that causes culture shock, but it also provide the solution and methods to overcome culture shock. Therefore, it is attracted by many listeners. According to the lecture, the professor explain briefly the reason cause culture shock by using simple, popular and familiar examples that usually occured in international students' lives. She compaired the American value and Chinese value. She state that every culture value the same things, but they rank differently. That is true, for example, the American value is individualism is more important than family, but in Chinese culture it is inverse.But both of them are value the same thing, social values. She used the experiences to support her lecture. At the end, she mention that people have to be friendly and behave to accept the new culture, it will make them to live better in another culture. I agree with her opinion. I used to be in the same situation like that when I first came to Canada. I can not join the canadian conversation. Because they talk so fast and they always talk in same group. I try being alone and do my works by myself. Finally, I firgue out that is not going to be helpful, I can not finish the works by only myself. Living in communittee need to know each other. Thus, I try to learn the new culture, I realize that I ought to be friendly and tolerant if I want to study and have friends at here. Moreover, I learn how to duel with others.