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Culture Shock and the Stages of Adaptation

Posted: admin on Jul 15 | Romance Tours, Russia, Russian Dating, Ukraine

“Culture regulates our lives at every turn. From the time we are born until we die there is, whether we are conscious of it or not, constant pressure upon us to follow certain types of behavior that others have created for us.” — Clyde Kluckholn

Every person has a culture that has been acquired from his or her own cultural group. Russian women are no different. People tend to regard their own culture as correct and often use the standards of their own culture to judge others. Each society tries to pass its culture on to his children. When someone travels to another country and encounters people from the new culture, there is an immediate need to make adjustments if he is to function well in that society; there are a number of stages a person passes through as he tries to adjust.

Problems of personal adjustment to a foreign environment are referred to as “culture shock”, a common experience for a person learning a second language in a new culture. It is usually brought on by sudden loss of familiar surroundings. The effect that culture shock has on an individual ranges from mild irritability to deep psychological panic and crisis. Culture shock is associated with feelings of estrangement, anger, hostility, indecision, frustration, unhappiness, sadness, loneliness, homesickness, and even physical illness. The person undergoing culture shock views his new world out of resentment, and alternates between being angry at others for not understanding him and being filled with self-pity.

Anthropologists agree that individuals adjusting to a new culture pass through several stages:

Russian women eventually overcome culture shock
Stage 1 (also known as the honeymoon stage) is the stage of happiness or euphoria over the newness of the surroundings;

Stage 2, culture shock emerges as the individual begins to feel more and more cultural differences. In this stage the individual is deeply disenchanted and in a

Stage 3 the person begins, slowly but surely, to accept and adjust to the differences in thinking and feeling that surround him. He then begins to become emphatic with the persons in the new culture.

Stage 4 represents recovery, either adaptation or assimilation. In this stage the person feels a new confidence in the new person he or she has become. This last stage is re-entry.

Pierre Casse (1981) has provided a model of the culture-shock process. He summarizes the entire culture shock process. He says, “It has to be stressed that (a) the process is different from one individual to another, and (b) people’s reactions vary broadly. And yet it seems that there is a pattern which can be taken into account when trying to adjust to another culture”.

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