【正文】 hey prevent us from making necessary adjustment to the new culture. 7. Strategies for managing culture shock ? B. Alleviating culture shock learning throughout your stay get involved master simple tasks try to understand learn to live with ambiguity be empathetic (移情 ) be flexible and resourceful (機(jī)智的 ) be humorous CrossCulture Training Program ? 跨文化訓(xùn)練的方式大致上有以下幾類方式： ? 1. 以提供信息為主的訓(xùn)練：例如就某個國家的歷史和文化習(xí)俗等情況作演講、放錄像、提供閱讀材料、組織討論等。我在臺灣受完大學(xué)教育，出國已是 20多歲，算是一個成熟的成年人，全身的每一個細(xì)胞都是在中華文化建立起來的。Chapter 5 Culture Shock in Intercultural Communication Introductory Case ? Upon her arrival in La Paz, Bolivia, from Atlanta, Geia, Katherine asked directions to the ladies’ room at the local university. Upon entering, she observed three males using urinals and made a hasty retreat. Her . colleagues explained that all restrooms were unisex。因此，在美國過了那么多年，還是很想念臺北的夜市與夜生活。這是比較傳統(tǒng)也比較容易采用的一種方法。 understands visual messages readily Cultural differences at the airport ? You will notice an interesting phenomenon at the arrival gates of international airports. Usually there is a group of family members or a host waiting to meet the Chinese, Japanese, and other Asians who are getting off the airplane. Often there is no one waiting to meet the Westerners who are arriving. They just collect their baggage and then take a taxi or a bus to their destination. ? Apparently the Asians think that no one arriving in an unfamiliar place should be left to find their on their own. They need people at this time. Westerners are more likely to assume that certain predictable services will be available such as hotel booking counters and transportation services and that they can find these and the city and already learned a lot about the airport, hotels, tourist site, what people he will need to contact for particular purposes once he gets there, where to get a good dinner, and more. ? Westerners, as lowcontext municators, look for, trust and use impersonal sources of information while municators from more highcontext cultures prefer personal sources of information. ③ A crosscultural dialogue ? Foreign affair officer (FAO): Foreign teachers ask me for lots of information before they e to China. ? Foreign teacher (FT): What do you tell them? ? FAO: I tell them they’ll find out everything that they need to know when they get here. ? FT: Oh. ? FAO: Yes, my office and the teaching departments arrange everything for them. Every foreign teacher has a contact person to help them with problems of teaching and daily life. ? Westerners appreciate the personal help they receive when they e to China, but they also want lowcontext information to help them plan, act and adjust to a new situation. ? Highcontext municators need the lowcontext messages they receive, but without human helpers they experience their new cultural situation as cold and impersonal. 。 ? 3. 提高文化敏感的訓(xùn)練：這是提高一般的文化敏感的訓(xùn)練方法。若連吃三五天漢堡包，不真得發(fā)瘋才怪！到底是否完全適應(yīng)美國文化，到目前，還沒有滿意答案。 ? 文化休克是人們對于另一種不熟悉的文化環(huán)境的心理反應(yīng)。 in fact, transitions of any type are both psychologically and physically stressful. Problems with housing, climate, services, or munication in another language bring additional stress. b. Social Alienation An aspect of culture shock that can have adverse effects upon the newers to a culture is social alienation and the feelings of loneliness that are associated with being isolated from friends and the home culture. c. Social class and povertywealth extremes Class distinctions do exist in many countries, but a