What is Culture Shock?

When we travel and visit another culture, our behavior rules and familiar environment are suddenly modified. Therefore, it's common to experience emotional perturbance, as some confusion. Feeling endangered in our social identity is also a common emotion. This is know as Culture Shock.

Fig. 1. gsgeducation.com/lidiar-choque-cultural/

Culture Shock is an unavoidable and unwaivable process experienced by international students. it describes the impact of moving from a familiar culture to an unfamiliar one.

Since it is accompanied by a variety of psychological frustrations, it has become an important topic for emotional health experts.

This process has 6 different stages:

1. Honeymoon

2. The fall

3. Learning to walk again

4. Juggling

5. Walking and Juggling

6. Culture Chock reverse

Understanding the process of Culture shock, as the impact it has on you, will allow you the development of strategies to address and overcome not only personally but also interpersonal relationships.

Fig 2. Choque cultural | Cómo superarlo si te mudaste a otro país (experienciajoven.com).

There are some strategies to deal with Culture shock and its symptoms . Such is the case of resilience generation, transcultural technics, Buddy model, ABC model, and RULER. method.

Take a look on the main article!

Cupsa I. (2018). Culture Shock and Identity. Transactional Analysis Journal, 48 (2), 181–191. in https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03621537.2018.1431467?scroll=top&needAccess=true