week 8：question 1

[A3095]

Why does culture shock occur to people who make cultural transitions?

[zihan wang(Handy)]

From my perspective, the reason why culture shock occurs that is very complicated, because we live in different places, which have different culture spaces. We have diffenert value systems. Every culture has a long history, which was developed by our ancestors. Our values are influenced by our native culture, and culture also will be developed by ourselves. When people who have different cultures meet together, and they rarely know other's culture, which will be very easy to cause the culture shock. Culture shock is very very complicated that is not easy to feel. Sometimes, we inadvertently do something or say something to others, which might cause culture shock, because we only think we what we do is very normal in our culture, but we don't know what it means to others, they even may think this action is very aggressive. Learning other culture is a long progress, which likes we understand our friends, sometimes we may have some conflictions with our friends, because we do not totally know our friends, and they also have their personal values, but we only need to hold our respect, honesty, tolerance, and take our time to know each other. Problems always have some ways to solve. There will be no culture shock.

[zan72h]

The people who make cultural transitions are always have unique cultural spaces. They know more than one culture style. "Many people in today’s world who consider themselves the product of many cultures, not easily fi tting into any of the categories, are also cultural hybrids."

And Culture shock is the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country, or to a move between social environments, also a simple travel to another type of life. So of course, when you move to another country, you will get culture shocked by the new environment. Like some people who were born in A country, grow up in B country and develop in C country, and maybe even get career in D country. Theye gets changed a lot by each transition.

 

Annie

A2866

[xhuang0802]

I consider which it's related to the people's mind or perhaps the development of the mankind. Because we accepted our original culture passively without any consciousness when we were an infant whose mind is easily to be influenced by their surrounding. It proves that swiping their memories and sentiment towards their own culture is nearly impossible so that transitions are something like very tough to enter into a human deeper mind to root out the old one for replacing the new one. Like a tree, it's going to die. While people are trying to swipe out something on their deep heart, they are trying to put another new things without any interval. Then, they will find out that my mind is still the old version and I can not translate into a new environment in the meanwhile.

[eason A2954]

In my opinion, cultural shock occurs to people who make cultural transitions because they have their original culture and then they face another different culture. If they don’t need to face these differences, they may just think that is pretty interesting, because that is very different with their culture, because they don’t need to face them. However, when they need to face that, it is a hard time. For example, in Asian students are supposed to be quiet during the class except teacher asking them questions. However, in America teachers encourage students discuss in the class to figure the questions. In Asian, when students face question, they are supposed to read books and find out the answer. However, in Europe teachers inspire students to think instead of read book. They will like your answer which is thought by yourself instead of what you find from book. They only care the procedure to figure out the answer instead of such as Asian thinking, which means only care the answer.

[tiffanyyuan24]

Cultural transformation refers to the cultural patterns of a new alternative to the old form of culture, manifested as a change of culture, progressive process. culture shock means people not suited to the culture who from their original culture environment to transfer to a new culture environment. Culture shock to promote the development of the field of social and cultural diversity, people's thinking has been liberated, and respect for self, the pursuit of freedom, focus on personal fulfillment.

[a3001gavin]

I think that there are many different countries in our world, and different people can development many different cultures. But some cultures are advanced and some cultures are unique, also have some cultures are prudent. So, many cultures are developed by many people who make cultural transitions. Because these people want to fallow the advanced culture or they are interested in cultures. And they can accept another culture much easier and they also can be culture shocked easier. For example, in Ancient, Chinese culture was more advanced than other countries’ cultures. And Japanese and Korean messengers went to China to learn the advanced Chinese culture, and these people were culture shocked much easier. And they could influence their countries’ people. So today, Japanese and Korean cultures are similar with Chinese culture. For another example, in modern, western culture is more advanced, and many countries’ cultures want to fallow the western culture. So, many people come to Europe and America to learn. And they come back to influence their countries’ people. The result of that, many countries’ government and social democracy are similar with the western country.

ID a3001    Gavin

[vincent ge]

To understand Why culture shock occur to people who make cultural transitions, we should know what is culture shock at first. Culture shock is the personal uncomfortable that a person feel a different way of life when he visit a new culture. Cultural transitions are the development of different cultures. In conclusion, cultural transitions should base on different cultures. According to different cultures, the culture shock appear. culture shock shows the difference between different cultures, Finally, people will accept the culture shock.

a2383 vincent

[a3000faye]

I think I belong to a cultural transformation I was culture shocked. When people go to a culture different to their original place, the many people will experience a psychological confusion. This is culture shocked. And I came from China to the United States, over a period of time, I tired of hearing people say in a different language, look at something less than the same familiar, learn to recognize the label of a food to the supermarket, I began to experience culture shock. And then lived   some months, I gradually get used to life here, like their language, like the blue sky, like an easy life here, like the American food, and like American culture of the most advanced culture in the world. And I’m used to American culture, because I think that the American culture is more advanced than Chinese culture, I can be influenced much easier. This is the reason why culture shock to culture transitions. 

ID a3000     Faye

[Julia Tian (A2854)]

Culture shock means a relatively short-term feeling of disorientation and discomfort due to the lack of familiar cues in the environment. It always occurs when people travelling or immigration. As the technology of transportation developing, people travel much more than before. When people go to another place, they will experience a lot of different things, such as language, food, whether, surrounding. Then culture shock occurs.

When people travelling or immigration to another place, they will resist some of their own cultures or adapt some new cultures by native people, meanwhile, the native people’s cultures are influenced by new immigrations, which make cultural transitions.

 

[anvithg]

People from different places have different cultures in other words they have their own cultural space that they were brought up in. But when a person has to move from one place to another, the culture in the new place might be completely different compared to the culture he grew up in. For example, I originally come from a liberal family and from a small city in India, I completed my high school there and moved to New York which is one of the biggest metropolitan cities in the world. The culture in New York was completely different compared to my culture. People in New York live their own lives, they hardly help others and they are kind of rude. I felt like I was lost when I first came to New York because of the cultural transition. But now when I think back about it, it sounds normal because I got used to the American culture and its not new to me anymore.

[7681zhu]

I think when people travel or aboard in the other country, the country's culture will influence you a lot. It makes you to learn their country's culture. Because it can make you easy live here. Like myself, I just come here, I don't care about the culture. But after that, I relized something I should know. When I take the first class, I want to do to restroom, and I rais my hand, told the teacher I want to do to the restroom, teacher siad I don't nessary to say that, just go is fun. If in our country, I didn't get the teacher's permision, I think the teacher will angry with me.

[chaonan liu]

Culture shock, happens to almost every- one in intercultural transitions. Individuals face many challenges of transition in new cultural contexts. Most people who move between cultures (for study, work, tourism, or to take up a new permanent residence) experience a period of adjustment as they establish themselves in their new environment. The adjustment period may be accompanied by dramatic manifestations of symptoms such as anxiety, like something is culture shock occur to the people. 

Chaonan Liu

A2800