culture shock

Culture shock is a term used to describe the anxiety and feelings (of surprise, disorientation, confusion, etc.) felt by an individual caused by coming into contact with an entirely different social environment, such as a foreign country. It often relates to the inability to assimilate the new culture, causing difficulty in knowing what is appropriate and what is not. Often this is combined with strong disgust (moral or aesthetical) about certain aspects of the foreign culture.Culture shock has its own common symptoms, in four stages. The first is the honeymoon stage, which lasts a few weeks. In this stage, people perceive everything around them as great. The next stage is shock, described above. After that, there is negotiation, wherein people work to resolve the differences in culture. Finally, acceptance. With acceptance, people realize that there are both good and bad things about the culture, and they can work with it.Because it is so subjective, the experience of culture shock is hard to convey in rows of numbers or even statistically significant general tendencies of "most" people. We will focus on the experience of culture shock as described by undergraduate college students visiting different countries around the world. What do people say when they are going through culture shock? What do they feel? What do they think? We'll try to answer some of those questions in the students' own words as they describe the critical incidents that happened to them in culturally different settings.Culture shock is the process of initial adjustment to an unfamiliar environment. This psychological construct of culture shock has been used to describe the adjustment process in its emotional, psychological, behavioral, cognitive, and physiological impact on individuals. In a multicultural context, culture shock is a more or less sudden immersion into a nonspecific state of uncertainty where the individuals are not certain what is expected of them or of what they can expect from the persons around them. The term of culture shock was first introduced by Kalvero Oberg (1960) to describe the anxiety resulting from not knowing what to do in a new culture. The familiar cues have been removed or have been given a different meaning, resulting in responses ranging from a vague discomfort to profound disorientation. The recent literature recognizes that culture shock applies to any new situation, job, relationship, or perspective requiring a role adjustment and a new identity. In a broader and more general sense, culture-shock applies to any situation where an individual is forced to adjust to an unfamiliar social system where previous learning no longer applies.

Culture Shock - International Students in the United States

DR.FIROUZ NADERI - PAAIA Profiles of Iranian Americans

RIGHT TO CULTURE

Right to culture is a human right to partake in culture, to enjoy it and to have a chance for some contributions to the culture without interference from the government. According to it, every individual has right to protect the ethical importance of any cultural, scientific, creative or mythical invention. According to human rights law, protection of culture includes two notions. Firstly, protection of culture in international law covers the scientific pursuits of community. Secondly, peoples have right to practice and continue shared activities and traditions.Special provisions have been implemented regarding the responsibilities of aggressive parties during war. The duty of states to protect and respect world cultural places has particularly been toughen through treaties. Such issues have been increased in recent conflicts in Afghanistan with the bombing on world cultural places and also the conflicts in Iraq with the failure to prevent the pillaging of antiques from museums. State parties have a compulsion to take steps necessary for the development, distribution and protection of science and culture in order to guarantee the full realization of this right.Governments are mostly expected to integrate cultural studies in their education syllabus through the coaching of civilizations, foreign languages and cultural tradition. Cultural education is seen as a means of enhancing stability and peace and in racial disputes and warfare tribal.According to Article 27 of the UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and Article 15 of ICESCR (International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Each person has the right to take part in the cultural life of society, to benefit from scientific growth, and to contribute in science and culture. Each person has the right to protect the ethical importance of any cultural, scientific, creative or mythical invention. State parties should take steps necessary for the development, distribution and protection of science and culture in order to guarantee the full realization of this right.

FLE 133 ERROR ANALYSIS WORKSHEET FOR SECTION 04

Directions: You need to identify, describe and correct the errors in each sentence. There might be more than one error in each case.
 

SENTENCES WITH ERRORS	ERROR CATEGORY / CATEGORIES	NAME/DESCRIPTION OF ERROR	CORRECTION
The other point, maybe for most of us it is a problem, is being had to live without family.	Local errors And global errors	Missing article And incorrect use of the word maybe. Furthermore, incorrect sentence structure	The other point is that having to live without a family is a problem probably for most of us.
Metu is worth to deal with problems with which we can come across in Metu.	Local errors	Incorrect word form Incorrect use of the preposition ‘with’	Metu is worth dealing with the problems we can come across.
What I want to tell is that our curriculum should be easier than that of we have now.	Local errors Global errors	Incorrect use of the preposition ‘of’ and incorrect use of dependent relative clause.(we have now)	What ı want to tell is that our curriculum should be easier than this one we have now.
The most important thing is student can get the best knowledge in here.	Global errors Local errors	The missing word ‘that’ and the missing article	The most important thing is that a student can get the best knowledge in here.
Always i want to get more things not just related to the department issues for examples going to dancing course or such musical course.	Global errors Local errors	İncorrect use of transition and connectors (for examples going to dancing course, get more things not just related to the department) and incorrect word choice.	I always want to learn more than the things and skills my department provide me with; for example, I wanto go dancing or musical course.

health and wellness tips for college students

many college students feel they can’t really find the time to keep up on their personal health and wellness until an illness catches hold and stops them in their tracks. With most colleges providing health care and endless physical activities for students, staying healthy in college is about as easy as it will ever get. There are several ways that students by doing them can have health and wellness life in their education life. First way is about their diet. Without careful attention to their diet, they could end on putting on the freshman 15 and more. For example by eating vary meals, eating breakfast, drinking water and eating fruits. Second way is about sleep. College students aren’t exactly known for their early to bed early to raise attitudes, but getting sleep is an integral part of staying healthy. For example they should avoid all-nighters I mean that you don’t need to study all night to do well because you might be doing yourself a disservice. Another example maybe create bedtime routine which their body after a few weeks of practice this should help you fall asleep when they need to.to sum up, there are several ways to be healthy during our education life that I mention some of them above.

video reflection

1)In general all students are interesting in american education system.They think that they have more opportunities than they have in their home country.For example,in USA they have more practice and also work with a team.
2)Each of students have their own reasons to have education in USA.For example,Krishra chose the USA due to its creative environment and the use of team work in education.
3)There are some differences between the USA and theire home country.For example in China, linxi say that they have to hang the laundry outside.She adds that they drink coffee a lot.Also she claims that even in winter the Americans can wear shorts,which makes her astonished.
4)The international students have to pay about 30.000 dollar for a year,But it depands on your major program.
5)Like all of foreign students they also have difficulties with culture and language which is normal for them.
6)Of course they had culture shock.As i am foreign student,when i came tu turkey i also had culture shock i mean that meet with different people different opinion different language and different culture.I had lots of difficulties like homesick and loneless and...but after you find friends and start to studying you will be busy and you will not have any time to think about these difficulties.

High school vs. College

A good education is an important part of life. To achieve a good education, a person should attend both high school and college. Although high school has a lot in common with college, but there are som difference  betwen them . After graduating from high school and enrolled into college and noticed that there are many differences between them. A few of these differences include the attitude and responsibilities of the teachers and students and the amount of work given to the students.
To begin with, there are many ways in which the attitudes of the teachers in high school are different from the attitudes of the professor’s in college. In high school teachers seemed to be stricter and have more rules for the students to follow. The teachers  also responsible for making sure each student obeyed these rules to the fullest extent and carried out disciplinary actions for those who did not obey them. One example in which a teacher has taken on a disciplinary action  when a student com late or skip their scheduled and the teacher wrote the student up and gave them detention. Whereas, in college if a student is late or they skip the class for whatever reason the teacher usually doesn’t take any action because in college it’s not up to the professor to worry about if you miss class or not, you pay to go to college so if you want to not go and waste your money that’s not the professors problem or responsibility.
Then, the amount of work given to a high school student also differs from the amount of work given to a college student. Generally in high school you have about 8 classes that you alternate to throughout the day and each class most likely gives you homework. Homework is given to students in high school mostly everyday because you’re learning something new every day.   Now in college a professor will rarely give out homework. Now a day in college, students are writing notes more and just studying their books of the...

B)I'm foreign student at metu.when i was in my home country i realy wanted to come turky and to study at metu in a department of language education,also my sister at that time was studing at metu in air space engineering and she really helped me to come to metu .I sturted studying in highschool and going to more classes to learn both english and turkish.In my opinion studying at metu is big apportunity to be success in the future. When i came turkey and staying at campus in metu i begon to learn living alone far from my family,getting more experience,learning new languages and new culture and also i wanted to have more friends from different countries because by this way i would be able to learn about different cultures.At metu i have more basic lessens related to my department because in my home country because of islamic republic country, university lessens are more related to the religion and so that at metu i can get them from lessens.Apart from my department at metu there are lots of activities that i can be a member of them.Always i want to get more things not just related to the department issues for examples going to dancing course or such musical course.At metu lectures also are more experience people and some of them are well known lectures.Metu also is one of the wellknown universities and all departments you have to study hard and then after graduating you are becaming a inteligent person in a social.At the same time im going to learn 3 different languages and really its enjoyable for me.One more interesting thing is meeting or getting friend whith foreing students and different cultures for me.At metu you will never feel alone because almost of students like you are from other countries and also lectures.Of course at metu it doesnt matter where are you from because all students and lectures have close relation together.At metu we can both improve our social and academical life because every day we are meeting whith lots of people in different karakters and different topics.