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Callum: Hello, and welcome to this edition of Who on Earth are we? with Marc Beeby.
TodayMarc looks at culture shock and we start with Dr Rajni Badlani from the
British Council in India describing an experience she had when she first visited
Britain.
Rajni Badlani
When I first went to England I was absolutely, absolutely shocked. There were three of us.
Two of us Indians and there was one English person. Right in the middle of the conversation
he takes out a banana, peels it and starts eating it, without even saying ‘excuse me’ or
whatever. We expect to be offered.
Marc: Dr Badlani describes a moment when two cultures collided, a moment of
‘culture shock’. People who spend time living in another culture have many
moments like this. But ‘culture shock’ isn’t simply a series of small incidents
that upset or puzzle us. It’s more a process - and, in fact, it’s a process that
many of us will have experienced without ever leaving home. To explain
further, here’s Rebecca Fong, a teacher of intercultural communication at the
University of the West of England.
Rebecca Fong
Most of us tend to think of culture shock as a kind of exotic illness that we get when we get to
far-off places - but actually it’s not just related to far-off places - it’s extremely similar to
something that we go through whenever we go through any kind of change in our life or any
kind of transition. We’re constantly having to deal with the kinds of changes that come with
different stages of personal development and different events in your life like moving house
or getting a new job or divorce or bereavement and all of these things involve us giving up
something that we were familiar with and trying to adjust and adapt to something new.
Obviously changes like this are traumatic in different degrees and they’ll be worse for some
people than others.
Callum: Rebecca Fong. The degree to which people experience culture shock when they
visit a foreign country depends on several things. One of the most important of
these is ‘cultural distance’ - how different is the culture that you’re visiting
from the one that you’ve grown up in. Then, what is your role in the new
culture? Do you have people to talk to or do you feel terribly lonely? To some
extent, this will depend on your personality. But despite these individual
differences, there are certain stages to the process of culture shock that most
people experience. Rebecca Fong guides us through those stages now, with
help and comments from people from around the world. We begin in a positive
frame of mind.
Rebecca Fong
Culture shock has been divided up into a process that has roughly five different phases. First
of all there’s what’s called euphoria or exhilaration and I’ve also heard it being called the
honeymoon period. It often takes from a few weeks to a few months depending on the cultural
distance, your personality and all the factors that we’ve already mentioned. You’ve got over
the panic of the travel and the departure and saying goodbye to your friends and the journey
was very exciting and you’ve got lots of things to look forward to - and you arrive and you’re
so busy looking for accommodation and the things that you need in that country and getting to
know the new people at work, and you tackle all your problems with good humour - and you
are far too busy to get at all negative or depressed. It’s not until after this has worn off a little
bit that you start to run into some of the problems. The climate will be different, the traffic
problems may be very different or you may find that the food is not to your liking.
Mahmoud Jamal
When I was about 18 my aim was to go abroad to study. I decided to come to London.
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