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Culture Shock is a very real emotional experience, which affects everyone, at one level or another, when one leaves familiar surroundings to live somewhere else. The symptoms may include: stress, fatigue, prolonged irritability, unexpected weeping, dissonance with the host people, paranoia, an increased need to be aggression, and a romantic opinion of one's own former home. But Culture Shock can also represent a new sense of freedom, an opportunity to start again, a more focused perspective, and a chance to be appreciated for qualities you never realized you had in the "old country." Culture Shock relates to not only the experiences of change by people coming from another country/culture, but also to those who within a particular country, are confronted by issues of significant cultural difference. For example, someone moving from Mississippi to California can experience a dissonance of attitude and custom that can be just as unsettling or liberating as someone coming from Thailand to America. Culture Shock however, is experience by people who share at least one thing in common. They are all people who have taken a chance and left their native confines and challenged themselves in another environment. In that respect America is a Culture Shocked society! The following are a number of essays that explore the various experiences of Culture Shock. Not necessarily in an attempt to overcome a situation, because difference is what makes us all unique, but rather to ask questions about our acquiescence to stereotypical behavior as a substitute for individual power and responsibiltiy. Contents
Essays that provide a unique perspective on trie culture shocks of daily life Excerpts
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Coming to America
See London and Die
The Road to Ramadan
6,000 Years in 6 Days
Jamaica, No Problem© copyright 2004-2005, Ian C. Moore, Quilomobo Enterprises. All Rights Reserved.