Honeymoon stage is often overwhelmingly positive during which most people become infatuated with the language, people and food in their new surroundings. In the video for the honeymoon stage have been showed that Jeevin had a great time in Alex’s family. Jeevin was in love with the food of the culture. Besides, Jeevin also had celebrate Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn festival with Alex’s family together. Jeevin also tried to learn Chinese language from Alex.
Crisis stage
The crisis is the differences between new and your own setting create problems. These difference such as language barriers, stark differences in public hygiene, traffic safety, food accessibility and quality may heighten the sense of disconnection from the surroundings. Feelings of frustration and inadequacy come to the fore. In this video, Jeevin forget to call Alex’s father and mother to eat before he start the dinner. Alex’s father was not happy with this behaviour and considered Jeevin to be rude. Besides, Jeevin had to try to use toilet paper to clean himself after pooping because of there was no water at that time. Jeevin was not comfortable with it because he had never use toilet paper before when in India. These problems cause Jeevin to feel anxious and feel more pressure.
Recovery
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It is basically can be done by us with our unique environments, experience, strengths and weaknesses that can be taken into contemplation. In the video for the recovery stage is shown when Jeevin was determined to learn the new Chinese culture from Alex such as learning to use chopsticks. He was also taught by Alex to use toilet paper rather than water when there is no water supply at home. He tried to make himself use to it so that it can help Jeevin kill the awkwardness. Based on all his effort, it showed that Jeevin was trying to handle the new culture in an appropriate way by showing initiative in learning the new
...as the day we married.” (p 23) On the surface, all seems well; however if on looks closer one can see a very sad occurrence-taking place. Most couples who have lasted a goodly time together will not answer the question, “Do you love your spouse like the day you married?” Invariably man and wife will reply, “No, I love him/her more than the day we married.” Long married couples become closer. Intimacy grows in the physical as the couple’s love proportionally grows all more. The growth is palpable to the individuals within the marriage. Furthermore, as life’s hardships are over come together, the couple’s love will grow exponentially. Welty understands this yet chooses a different path for the Fletchers. Some place in time, either by Mrs. Fletchers pride or by Mr. Fletcher’s inability to deal with confrontation, the growth of which should have taken place will happen.
In her short stories, Lahiri presents the condition as a ramification of the degree to which characters adapt to society (Bhardwaj 12-13). This is to say that immigrants experience this crisis differently, depending on how much they have integrated into their new surroundings. Mrs. Sen cannot seem adapt to American culture as she continues to embrace her Indian upbringing. Her traditions cannot be fulfilled at her house or in her community as she yearns to return to India. However, she realizes that she should try to adjust and becomes a babysitter for a short while until she gets into a car accident. Because Sen barely accepts her environment, her challenge is embracing Western
In “An Indian Father’s Plea”, the father writes “although you in Western society may argue that such a method serves to hinder motor-skill development and abstract reasoning, we believe it forces the child to first develop his intuitive faculties, rational intellect, symbolic thinking, and five senses” (An Indian Father’s Plea). This illustrates an argument in which his son, Wind Wolf, is a slow learner in another culture (teachers) since his culture belief teaches something different from the teachers’ culture. Another example is when Wind-Wolf feels isolated at school since other students at school doesn’t accept him for his culture and even when he tries to adapt. “He feels that he does not belong [there]… Instead of being proud of his, heritage, and culture, he feels ashamed” (An Indian Father’s Plea). Though isolation can be depressing, adapting to another culture can also be
For example, the Campinha-Bacote model views cultural competence as an ongoing process that involves the integration of the following constructs: cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural skill, cultural encounters, and cultural desires (Campinha-Bacote, 2002). This model can be implemented into practice as I can recognize my own cultural background to prevent the tendency to impose any biases on another individual’s culture. I can begin to build upon my cultural knowledge by asking questions in a respectful manner to seek information about one’s culture. Most importantly, a desire to want to engage in the process of becoming culturally competent will be a deciding factor for positive patient outcomes. Examples of this desire may include, the willingness to learn how to conduct cultural assessments or a genuine passion to be open and accept differences between cultures. Moreover, it is important to recognize that cultural competency is not an end result, but an ongoing learning process (Campinha-Bacote,
Adjusting to new situations is always a bit tough, especially when it’s a new culture. In “An Indian father's Plea” by Robert Lake you see how Wind Wolf is adjusting to his new culture. For instance, the teacher in the story, calls WindWolf a slow learner but his father said “It takes
Many countries around the world experience great poverty, maybe because the country has little amounts of natural resources or it has never gotten out of a slump that dragged down the economy. The people of the country are affected greatly by this, almost directly, if there are no resources available, people can’t work to refine the resources, make or use them. So instead of using the resources available, the country buys the materials needed. This puts the country in debt, along with the people. In order to get out of debt, taxes are raised and people slowly lose their jobs and their money. The affect of that is turmoil, some people blame their misfortune on a certain race or culture, some on a religion. In the case of Germany in 1938...
The first phase of culture shock is the Honeymoon phase. This phase is marked by anticipation. In the Honeymoon phase a person looks forward to experiencing the new culture. The person is excited about learning about the new and different place, the people, or the customs. Usually, they are excited about the new exper...
In Lahiri’s story the attention and the plot of the story both stayed in one same direction that was the cultural clash. Lahiri’s story “Imperator of Maladies” revolves around people who are Indian’s living in India, Indian’s living in America or people Americans with an Indian decent. As her being a second generation immigrant in America, she realized at a very young age that her family is settled here but she was still not sure about the fact which place she could call her real home because of the different cultural she was witnessing in her everyday family life. In the story when the Das’s family did decided to visit India they did witness the same exact feeling. As the story progresses Lahiri gives us a brief background about Mr. and Mrs. Das as they both were born and raised in America but after sometime their retired parents decided to move back and spe...
However, the collision starts when the challenges and problems face them in the host country even less joy of some or fade! Some of them suffer many of the problems that might hinder their studies. It is often the problems occur in the first year of traveling to the study, which represents the real beginning for a new life in a society that is different in terms of religion, customs, traditions and the way of life. Eva Hoffman is the author of “Lost in Translation” was happy when she moved to Canada but, she had never thought that the life is not easy there if she didn’t prepare herself for it. She faced many things that made her uncomfortable. According to Eva Hoffman “It was Saturday when she went with Canadian friends to McDonalds. They got their orders from the drive-in and they sat and eat in the car and that made her finicky distaste.” She didn’t feel comfortable because their cultures are different. When I came to the United States, I felt as Eva Hoffman’s feeling. I was studying English Language at TLC with my Colombian friend. Our religions are different and he was my best friend. One day, we were studying together then he went to order dinner for us. He didn’t asked me what I want! So, he brought a
After watching Ernesto Sirolli’s presentation did change my perspective on how to approach others who have different culture. The title “If You Want to Help Someone Shut-Up and Listen” gets the point of the presentation across very directly. When people try to help others, most assume their way is the best or only way to do something. The people try to help without asking the locals what they want or why they do things a certain way that is different to them. The aid often finds their way does not work. If the people trying to help allows the locals to tell them what they need, and the aid using that to help, good results normally follows.
In Clyde Kluckhohn's passage, adapted from his book, Mirror for Man, we are given an illumination of anthropology on the concept of culture. He explains that culture is not only derived by "the way we are brought up," but also personal past experiences and the biological properties of the people concerned. As humans we have learned to adapt to our own personal surroundings and have conditioned ourselves and our life styles to revolve around such surroundings by the most comfortable means possible.
The Country Wife – written by William Wycherley in 1675 – is a Restoration comedy based upon the life of the aristocracy. Restoration comedy is a style of drama that was made popular in the late seventeenth century. It refers to the period in England when King Charles II was returned as the head of the English empire. Life under King Charles II was seen as hedonistic: people were motivated by pleasure. These moral virtues represented the degradation of society, rampant with sexual explicitness and obscenity (“Charles II”). The definition of moral virtue can be quite ambiguous. For the purpose of this essay I will define moral virtue as such: A set of accepted traits or qualities which are accepted as "right” or “good” in society. The Characters of The Country Wife set out to wrong one another. William Wycherley comments on the degradation of moral virtue in society through the negative values held by his characters. The characters exemplify immoral and disgraceful traits including jealousy, deception, and sexuality.
Pedersen, Paul. The Five Stages of Culture Shock: Critical Incidents Around the World. Westport, Connectcut: Greenwood Press, 1995.
Living in another country is a difficult experience for many people. A common feature of people living in a foreign country is finding them Gathered together in restaurants, discussing about their home and their experiences in the foreign country. Moreover, these groups are not all from the same home country. Often, the interests that landed them in a foreign country are enough to connect them in building the foundations of friendship, like studying same major. However, the only thing that you can see obvisely is fear. As a Saudi student in USA I can say we often have to deal with many administration issues that may even result to the cancellation of one’s citizenship. Like getting USA Green Card. There is a fear of living in another country that never goes regardless of the period that one has lived in a foreign country. However, the interests that landed them in a foreign country, including education and business. It’s the same even the student didn’t come from same place. in fact that they didn't came from the same mother country. This will presents the argument that people living in another country are subject to change depending in economic and political way in order for them to fit in the new country.
While it can be hard to adjust to this new environment, it is a great experience that will cause one to become a more cultured and well-rounded person. Even the bad things mentioned in this paper, sickness, poor diet habits, etc. these things can build character in a person. God gives everyone challenges in their lives and expects them to ask Him for the help they need. God gives people only what they can deal with.