#Culture Shock

[hyperfixating-chic]

I don’t think the fandom talks enough about the level of culture shock Damian went through.

First of all, he was in the desert then moved to the frikin’ north in America. That child was *freezing*.

Second, he moved from a dictatorship like violence cult to a dysfunctional family. That child was confused and probably felt very out of place.

Third, he moved from most likely a pretty strict schedule (I’d assume it was fairly normal for an assassin) to the Bat’s insane ‘sleep’ schedule and an actual school.

(Please don’t sacrifice me if I got something inaccurate)

@damian-al-ghul-wayne

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Culture Shock

As part of the acculturation process individuals may experience culture shock. 

It occurs when individuals move to a cultural environment which is different from their own.

It can also describe the disorientation we feel when:

exposed to an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration to a new country,

a visit to a new country,

move between social environments (e.g., moving away for college),

or transitioning to another type of life (e.g, dating after divorce).

Common issues associated with culture shock:

loss of status (e.g., provider to unemployed),

unfamiliar social systems and social norms (e.g., agencies rather than extended kin networks),

distance from family and friends,

information overload,

language barriers,

generation gap, and

possible technology gap.

There is no way to prevent culture shock because everyone experiences and reacts to the contrasts between cultures differently.

Culture shock consists of at least one of 4 distinct phases:

HONEYMOON

During this period, the differences between the old and new culture are seen in a romantic light.

For example, after moving to a new country, an individual might love the new food, the pace of life, and the locals’ habits.

During the first few weeks, most people are fascinated by the new culture.

They associate with individuals who speak their language and who are polite to the foreigners.

Like most honeymoon periods, this stage eventually ends.

NEGOTIATION

After some time (usually around three months depending on the individual), differences between the old and new culture become more apparent and may create anxiety or distress.

Excitement may eventually give way to irritation, frustration and anger as one continues to experience unpleasant events that are strange and offensive to one’s own cultural attitude.

The following may heighten the feelings of disconnection from the surroundings:

Language barriers,

stark differences in public hygiene,

traffic safety,

food accessibility and

quality.

Living in a different environment can have a negative, although usually short term, effect on our health.

While negotiating culture shock we may have insomnia because of circadian rhythm disruption, problems with digestion because of gut flora due to different bacteria levels and concentrations in food and water, and difficulty in accessing healthcare or treatment (e.g., medicines with different names or active ingredients).

During the negotiation phase, people adjusting to a new culture often feel lonely and homesick because they are not yet used to the new environment and encounter unfamiliar people, customs and norms every day.

The language barrier may become a major obstacle in creating new relationships.

Some individuals find that they must pay special attention to culturally specific body language (e.g., arms crossed, smiling), conversation tone, and linguistic nuances and customs (e.g, handshake, turn taking, ending a conversation).

Example: International students often feel anxious and feel more pressure while adjusting to new cultures because there is special emphasis on their reading and writing skills.

ADJUSTMENT

As more time passes (usually 6 to 12 months) individuals generally grow accustomed to the new culture and develop routines.

The host country no longer feels new and life becomes “normal”.

Problem-solving skills for dealing with the culture have developed and most individuals accept the new culture with a positive attitude.

The culture begins to make sense, and negative reactions and responses to the culture have decreased.

ADAPTATION

In the adaptation stage individuals are able to participate fully and comfortably in the host culture but this does not mean total conversion or assimilation.

People often keep many traits from their native culture, such as accents, language and values.

This stage is often referred to as the bicultural stage.

Source ⚜ Writing Notes & References Culture ⚜ Ethnocentrism & Cultural Relativism ⚜ Animal Culture

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned about the culture shock when entering the United States.

"I wasn’t the one that was shocked, but rather my mom was.

When she first came to America back in 1999 with her mom, she was unprepared.

They had come from a country in the Middle East, which was pretty conservative at the time.

When arriving at the airport, they were in shock.

See, they had came in July, which can be the hottest month of the year. When they had landed, my grandma literally screamed.

Women were wearing tank tops, ripped jeans, and even the dreaded, unholy…

Short shorts.

This was unacceptable back home, and they never even imagined there was such clothing.

My mom had to cover my grandma’s eyes and hold her hand to comfort her from this unusual attire.

One part that I’ll always find funny is when my mom was in the security line, wearing her Abaya (long garment). The lady in front of her, though, was wearing some sort of oversized shirt.

My mom was…inspecting the lady’s outfit, but when looking down, she almost passed out.

“I thought she was wearing no pants! NO PANTS! I wanted to run back to the plane and go home”, she tells me.

In fact, the lady was wearing a bottom; she was wearing shorts, but the shirt was covering it.

“I would have never came if I knew it was like this, but what’s done was done. I was stuck here”.

The clothing choices was the biggest cultural shock to my mom, and though she’s gotten used to it, there are a few cases which still shock her.

Cough-cough-leggings alone-cough.

“It’s supposed to go under a skirt or dress! Under! Why would you wear it alone?”.

[mint-mumbles]

Watching Detective Conan and caught up to the episode where an American teacher is introduced. However, the directors didn’t get a native English speaker (or someone who could imitate any American accent) so it leads to stuff like this:

The episode is FILLED with stuff like this. The American character randomly says English words, but they have a Japanese accent (not complaining about the accent, I just don’t know the point of why she’s just randomly saying English words as she sounds more fluent in Japanese than English 😭).

The fact that she also corrected a Japanese character with an accent who said the word “policeman” CORRECTLY the first time and then tried to tell him that the “right way” to say it is “POOR-IS-MAN” just had me laughing. Poor Megure is being lectured for literally nothing 😭

They really didn’t do any research for this episode. And I’m not saying that just because of the English, I’m saying that because THE PREMISE OF THE CASE OF THIS EPISODE IS THAT A GUY DIED WHILE PLAYING A FIGHTING GAME THAT PHYSICALLY HARMS YOU IF YOU GET HIT! HUH?! HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?!?! 😭

Also, in order to establish that this woman is American, they lean heavy into stereotypes: fair skin, blonde, blue eyes, revealing clothing, adult who enjoys video games (which I think was still taboo for adults in Japan to openly enjoy when this episode aired). But the best thing is, in her introduction outside of the flashback, she (I shit you not) plays a SHOOTING game and GETS A PERFECT SCORE WHILE DOING JUMP SPINS!!!

I would also like to say that this episode also provided us with this wonderful image:

NOW YOU TOP!

[beautiful-basque-country]

POV a 21st century Spaniard finds out Basque people and their culture exist.

I haven't felt more out of place with children aged 0-7 in my life. I've gone out to buy some things and seen all streets cut and filled with people and it turned out there was a cabalgata [parade] and there were lots of kids. Well, or cabalgato [gibberish], I don't know how the fuck it's said here because after what I've seen...

The thing is here there's no Santa Claus, here there's this old man that comes down from the mountains on a donkey, and that gives gifts to children that have shown an exemplary behavior. So there aren't elves, or reindeers, or anything, there are just little shepherds that help him with the gifts.

Then I decide to stay there and see it [the parade] and then I realize that these shepherds of the parade are yelling things in Basque, and I'm like 😐. I'm so out. And obviously kids answered them back in Basque, and there were lots of families talking in Basque between them. And for me that I'm only able to say agur [bye] and kaixo that I think means hi but in a very affectionate way [it just means hi] it was like.... I don't know. It's like I'm becoming aware right now of the culture shock, you know? I don't know. It's just that I suddenly felt so out of place, you know? I don't know. It felt weird.

But anyways, Basque people are very nice, I like them all, I love the Basque Country. I'm very well here, it's what I always wanted, so that's it. That was my experience. Bye and thanks.

[x]

[monsteracademy]

sonic dream team looks cool (i cant play it)

[pollswithnogoals]

Culture shock refers to feelings of uncertainty, confusion, or anxiety that people may experience when moving to a new country or experiencing a new culture or surroundings.

[strongestbanner]

Reading comics in my native language is kinda,,, I never imagined Victor saying an argentine slang lol

(I just found out that they use it in Spain too, but it is not as common)

[1-800-moatinyghase]

Hey guys! I have to work on building an audience for my YouTube channel for a class!

I would really appreciate if you checked out my channel and subscribed to it🥹 making YouTube videos is really nerve wracking for me right now as creativity has been a bit of a difficult feat but I’m working on it :)

I put a lot of tags but everything in the tags is what I have already posted or plan to post.

I will be talking about how I study Korean and other languages in the long form videos and just general talk about what I did during study abroad and being a black woman in east Asia.

[randomly-generated-posts-machine]

my cat cultural shock -gate political compas

[cochineal-leviat]

"Taranza blossoms into his role as one of the castle gardeners. But, he is still uneasy around Kirby and the rest of King Dedede's family - preferring to stay away from the persistent goddess killer. Unfortunately for him, his employer has an ace up his fluffy sleeve."

Heyo! Sorry, it took so long for this chapter to come out. It got so long, and when I finally finished the draft, I got to 14k, which is a lot to edit through. (and well, life getting in the way, you know, the usual) This chapter kicked my ass, and for it have this doodle I made. Please enjoy, cuz I'm going to bed. Have some sad man spider.

[nickysfacts]

Yasuke, the black samurai who helped the Demon King unify Japan!

🧑🏾‍🦱🇯🇵

[high-quality-tiktoks]

I now prefer room temperature or warm water.

[crazycatsiren]

5 years of driving in Germany has made me a rule sticker on the road, which doesn't work very well in the States apparently. 🫤

[milana-abroad]

Howdy 🤠

Also Leute, auch diesmal bin ich ein bisschen spät dran mit einem Update ABER früher oder später muss es ja kommen.

Ich bin tatsächlich schon seit Donnerstag in Buffalo, hatte natürlich aber viel um die Ohren, weshalb das Update erst jetzt kommt 😪 Gestern war ich ein bisschen mit meinen Gastschwestern unterwegs. Unter anderem bei Walmart und eins kann ich euch sagen: ES IST SO TEUER.

Naja jedenfalls habe ich dann ein paar Crazy Sachen mitgenommen. Chips mit saure Gurken Geschmack, Oreos mit Minz Füllung und Fruit Rollups. Verrückte Sachen, hat aber überraschenderweise ziemlich gut geschmeckt. Ja und danach sind wir noch nach Springfield gedüst 🚗 da haben wir Beach Volleyball gespielt (und gewonnen) und Eis gegessen. DAS EIS IST SUPER GÜNSTIG! nicht vergleichbar mit den 2€ Kugeln in Deutschland. Ja und das war’s eigentlich auch schon. Natürlich musste ich noch eine eSim Karte einrichten etc. Bin auch echt froh, dass ich das jetzt schon hinter mir habe.

Heute wird zu Hause gechillt 🥱 und vielleicht dip ich nochmal in den Pool weil es SO heiß ist 🏊‍♀️☀️

Alrighty,

Das nächst Update kommt nach meinem ersten Schultag (wahrscheinlich Dienstag oder Mittwoch)

Achso und: wenn ihr jemals bei Sonic seid, probiert unbedingt den Route 66 Becher! Der ist so groß, dass man von dem bestimmt drei Tage sippen kann. 🍼

CU

Milana 💃🇺🇸🦅