Culture Shock & The 4 Stages of Adaptation

When we move to another country, we are often exposed to a culture different from ours and need to go through four stages of transition: Honeymoon, frustration, adjustment, and adaptation. Some people are excited about the foreign culture for months, and others start to get frustrated on day one. And then there are those who experience a culture shock that is so strong that they leave before adjusting.

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Script: Ludovico Saint Amour di Chanaz and Jonas Koblin
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Read about a study on cultural adaptation in 50 countries
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Read about the Reverse Culture shock and the loss of identity that ensues
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Read the original research by Lysgaard
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000033837

SOURCES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_shock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalervo_Oberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9772322/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9120592/

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:35 Honeymoon Bliss
00:49 Frustration & culture shock
01:07 Adjustment & familiarity
01:23 Adaptation & mastery
01:59 The Paris syndrome
02:34 Reverse culture shock
02:53 Forced transition
03:12 Preschool anxiety
03:40 Lysgaard’s research
04:19 Your travel story

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