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3. Effects of culture shock Physical Symptoms Psychological Symptoms Culture Shock * Text C: Intercultural Adaptation ▲ Pre-reading Task: Consult someone from your culture who has been living in another culture for a relatively long?period of time. Ask him/her to tell you his/her feelings and experiences when he/she was in that culture. * Definition of intercultural adaptation Stages of intercultural adaptation * Intercultural adaptation refers broadly to the process of increasing our level of fitness to meet the demands of a new cultural environment. 1. Definition * 2. Stages of Intercultural Adaptation U-curve Pattern Honeymoon Period Crisis Period Adjustment Period Biculturalism Period * W-curve Pattern reverse culture shock * Activity: Quiz Imagine that you are going to a large urban American university for graduate study. To evaluate your adaptation potential, rate yourself on the adaptation checklist. Give yourself a score for each item according to the following scale: 1. Poor 2. Not as good as most people 3. Average 4. Better than most people 5. Excellent Adaptation Checklist Total score Background and Preparation Age — youth is an advantage Education — the higher the better Urban background — city dwellers do better than rural residents High level of professional skill General knowledge of the new culture, its history, custom arts, etc. Specific knowledge of the new situation; city, university, etc. Oral and written fluency in the language of new culture Previous out-of-culture experiences Similarity of home culture to new culture Personality factors Tends to be accepting of different ways of doing things Likes to meet new people and do new things Stays calm in difficult situations