As culture is the guidelines for our behaviors, we depend on our cultures. It gives us stability and security because we know how to understand and respond to what is happening. However, if we move to another culture or encounter people from an alien culture, our views may clash with the different beliefs, norms, values and traditions that exist in those countries. We may have difficulty adjusting to a new culture and to those parts of the culture not familiar to us, as a result we may suffer from anxiety and feelings (of surprise, disorientation, uncertainty, confusion, etc.). This is so called culture shock. It is really hard for us to give a perfect identification to culture shock, we may just get some concepts about it, Culture shock is the feeling of confusion, insecurity, and anxiety caused by the strangeness of a new environment (kohut & Baxter, 1987, p.432). It is the traumatic experience that individual may encounter when entering a different culture (Rogers & Sterinfatt, 1999, p.212). As Furnham & Bochner suggested, culture shock means “psychological reactions to an unfamiliar environment”, K. Oberg, an anthropologist by whom the term culture shock was first introduced suggested culture shock should be adjustments to new culture environment . According to Mitchell (2000, p.30) culture shock is one of the realities of working in a different culture, and it is inevitable like death and taxes and cyclical. In reading through the extensive body of culture shock, one is instantly struck by the wide range of definitions that have been used to describe it. All of the definitions have in common that they see culture shock as an unpleasant reaction to being faced with a foreign culture, besides reactions to culture shock vary, but there are distinct stages in the adjustment process and each stage in the process is characterized by “symptoms” or outward signs typifying certain kinds of behavior, probably the best strateg y cho với sốc văn hóa của nhiều ảnh hưởng ứng là đến khiến một nhận ra điều chỉnh đến mới của nền văn hóa, mặc dù nó có thể yêu cầu người nhận, kiên nhẫn và kiên trì,
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