Culture Shock

Culture & Culture Shock

By Let's English

THINK:

• What does it mean to you?

• How can it determine our choices career choices?​

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​Culture

„Culture is a collection of habits, practices, beliefs, arguments, and tensions that regulate and guide human life. Culture transmits certain practical solution to everyday problems. […] It consists of holidays, symbols, work of arts that contain implicit messages about how to feel, how to respond, how to divine meaning”

The Social Animal by David Brooks

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​Culture according to David Brooks:

„Culture is the sum of a society's patterns of behaviour,

customs, way of life, ideas, beliefs and values. And this is

essentially what we mean when we talk about 'national character​'.

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Watching the English by Kate Fox​

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​Culture according to Kate Fox:

​How can you describe your own culture? What makes you feel a Pole?

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Exercise 1

• What stereotypes do you know about Poland? Do you agree with them?

• Where do you think they come from?

• How are we perceived by someone from the UK? - Let's find out whether you were right! :D ​

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​Ready for fun?

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​How would you feel in the UK?

​Do you think that our identity may be shaped by our culture? If so, then in what terms?​

Exercise 2

Culture shock refers to the feeling of disorientation experienced by people when they move to an unfamiliar cultural environment or when they are suddenly exposed to a different way of life or set of attitudes. This can be the result of immigration or a visit to a new country, a move between social environments, or simply a transition to another type of life.

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​Culture Shock

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​Culture Shock stages

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​Culture Shock stages

​The honeymoon:

• experience of fascination, enchantment, with the new culture and its people.​

The crisis:

• the differences between your own culture

and the new setting create problems.

• Feelings of frustration and inadequacy

• the shock of the new culture.

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​Culture Shock stages

The Recovery:

• you gain the skills necessary to function effectively. You learn the language and ways of the new culture. Your feelings of inadequacy subside.​

The Adjustment:

• you adjust to and come to enjoy the new culture and the new experiences. You may still experience periodic difficulties and strains, but on the whole, the experience is pleasant.​