Director of Thesis
Dr. Nancy Buchan
First Reader
Dr. David Hudgens
2d Reader
Dr. David Hudgens
Abstract
Whereas students trail foreign to study new cultures and attain their language skills, there’s continuously an preliminary culture shock when coming into these unfamiliar environments. It is miles severe to know the causes and effects of culture shock, in particular experiences in Asia, a keep whose culture is vastly varied from the individualist cultures within the US and Europe. Whereas being exposed to new cultures is extra and extra crucial for our interdependent world, it turns into extra crucial to appear at reactions to that exposure and understand how those reactions originate or solutions to accommodate them. Particularly, students who watch foreign might per chance perchance also abilities culture shock in a particular intention than others on account of inside most factors and the motive of their commute. Culture shock has been traditionally studied on a cultural stage, but as watch foreign locations change into diverse, it is a long way severe to know varied dimensions – financial, geographic, and administrative to better assess culture shock in varied areas.
Immediate Citation
Lin, Judith, “The Asia Culture Shock Ride” (2017). Senior Theses. 183.
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/senior_theses/183
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© 2017, Judith Lin
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