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Culture shock has to do with negative feelings an individual experiences when he encounters a strange culture. For example a Kenyan who has just arrived in Britain for the first time might be dismayed at the way things are done in Britain. Merrill (1992) describes culture shock as “phenomena ranging from mild irritability to deep psychological panic and crisis. A person experiencing culture shock exhibits feelings of anger, frustration, loneliness homesickness, hostility estrangement and even physical illness”. (p. 35). Peter Adler (in Merrill 1986:36) describes culture shock in more technical psychological terms:
“Culture shock then is thought to be a form of anxiety that results from the loss of commonly perceived and understood signs and symbols of social intercourse. The individual undergoing culture shock reflects his anxiety and nervousness with cultural differences through any number of defense mechanisms: repression, regression, isolation and rejection. These defensive attitudes speak, in behavioral terms, of a basic underlying insecurity which may encompass loneliness anger, frustration and self-questioning of competence. With the familiar props, removed, the individual becomes disoriented, afraid of, and alienated from the things that he knows and understands.”
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