February 18th, 2008【海归生活之】反向文化冲击!(Reverse Culture Shock)
Many returnees find it hard to re-align to their original culture. They encounter what is called ‘’reverse culture shock'’. This is anything but surprising. Imagine, after living and studying 3 or 5 years in the U.S. or a common wealth country where English is spoken by everybody (you probably have formed the tendancy to even think in English) and people are more polite and less rude, how acceptable you’d think when seeing people around you spitting into the ground, making loud phone calls on a bus, or short-passing you in order to be served first? Actually you don’t have much of a chance to get rid of the feeling of an ‘’outsider'’.
The reason why returnees feel the impact of reverse-culture shock is,what they adopted and assimilated in terms of way of living,norms and somehow values from the western world contradict what they observed and are dominating in the local society. And they tend to resist to shift back to the "old ways" especially when they believe what they attained from the west are more ‘’civilized'’ or ‘’advanced'’ norms and values. It isn’t hard at all to imagine the painful feeling of observing the differences and the potential of compromise forced at them to get going in the locality. Those people who feel most painful in this process are those ones who accepted and endorsed profoundly the western angles.
Facing the challenge of reverse-culture shock and in the mean time realizing not much can be done to make a difference, the best solution to overcome the anxiety I’d recommend is to try to think that the way that the local guys behave doesn’t have a specific meaning at all, and it definately isn’t waged to insult anybody in the neighborhood. So, just don’t over-react!
February 18th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
标题:good English writing.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:52 am
标题:thx for your kind words
看来这个东东是个 ‘’minority report'’
February 19th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
标题::-) I
have cable now. Mitchell Obaba is a great politician herself, great speech on CSPAN tonight. I think she talks better than Hillary, people can relate to her much more after listening to her speech.
February 19th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
标题:Great writing
刚看到你的贴, 茶馆这两天太火了, 贴没拉出层都看不到.
你说的很对, 我特能体会, 因为绿龟感受的SHOCK远比蓝的强烈的多鸟. 我海归三年感触太多了, 一句两句说不完, IT IS A BIG TOPIC, 可以写个系列了, 所以偶准备要归海撩.
本来想用淫文回的, 一看你淫文这么强, 吓得偶都不敢撩
February 19th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
标题:Nice for you
\"this time it’’s different\"…(Omaba)
February 19th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
标题:没事没事!
别不敢呐
我抛砖头你show宝玉, 反过来也成 :)
certainly 中文也成
嗯,还是海宽。
February 20th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
标题:Its all about
how you view it.
对当地习俗如果能抱有理解甚至尊重的态度,自己会轻松很多。
毕竟,那是人家的地盘, 即使很早以前自己也曾经生活过。
BTW, 巴西人说话和笑声也很大喔.日本有的男人在国外也随地吐痰呐.