Category: Culture Shock

Executive Summary This report is based upon the movie Outsourced. The movie is about an American Company, outsourcing one department to India. The manager of the department, Mr.Todd has to go to India and manage the regional call center and train his Indian replacement. The Indian business cultures Mr.Todd sees and felt uncomfortable are described…

Culture shock is the feeling of disorientation experienced by someone when they are suddenly subjected to an unfamiliar culture, way of life, or set of attitudes. Culture Shock is a term used to describe the anxiety produced when a person moves to a completely new environment. This term expresses the lack of direction, the feeling…

In the global world, we can change our living country many times. It could be because of journey, work or study. They are different situations but all of them has a same problem, Culture Shock. For example students always likes to study abroad, because of many reasons. They prepare themselves to face with hard days,…

Moving to American Samoa created a significant culture shock because of the major culture differences between the Samoan and the Chinese culture. This paper evaluates my thought processes comparing and contrasting two different culture, my own and the Samoan culture. This paper researches the psychological reasoning of the progress I have made and making in…

To provide context, culture is an integrated system of learned behaviour patterns, wherein meaning is transmitted from generation to generation. According to Fisher, it represents specific attitudes and feelings of any given groups of people, which put simply is a system of shared meaning (qtd. in Kocak 64). As structuralists would understand, the nature of…

Abstract Culture shock is the impact of traveling from a familiar culture and trying to adjust to an unfamiliar one. Something I experienced for the first time in my life. Leaving a carefree and independent life in America where everything is done the proper way, to thousands of miles away in India where everything was…

Cross culture difference(India-Canada) It is always been a debatable issue how cross-culture affects our daily life and what are the differences and similarities between the cultures. Today I will discuss the cross cultural differences between India and Canada. And the cross-culture shock I have experienced. To begin with, every country has its own intermixed culture.…

Interestingly, the narrator highlights the fragments of otherness in [her] body and yet chooses to dismiss them through his hunger to find beauty. When he first meets her eyes, he notes that they hold a strange look of greed, amounting to craving within them. According to Carolyn Burdett eyes are one of the most prominent…

Background: There is evidence that Culture Shock plays a crucial role in the development of peoples sociocultural life nowadays. This term makes reference to the set of reactions that an individual may experience when coming into contact for the first time with a culture different from their own. Such an impact usually has an affective…

Based on our most recent census, Canada like many other developed nations encompasses an ethnically diverse populace that contains more immigrants than non-immigrants. Canada has offered protection to individuals fleeing persecution, individuals desiring an increased standard of living, and much more. As the Minister of Immigration, my commitment to all Canadians is to provide a…