Chapter 11 mainly describes the cultural encounter such as culture shock and acculturation or cultural negotiation.
It mentions that every person who stays in different culture in a certain amount of time experience the four phases to adapt to a culture; 1. euphoria, 2. culture shock 3. acculturation 4. stable state. Personally, I experienced these four stages during the stay in the United States. In the first month, I felt exciting novelty to everything that I encounter, but after that time, i experienced had time in adapting to the life here. This mainly arise from the language barrier. For example, I had to study for the class three or four longer times than normal students, and sometimes I did not understand what professor and classmates discussed. Especially I felt very stressful when I was appointed by professor to answer his questions even as I did not understand the intent of the questions. As I was getting to be able to understand English, I was getting to feel better even though I sometimes do not hear English.
In this manner, I experienced cultural accuturation curve through the life in the U.S. for almost 1 year. I would like to apply this experience when I stay in different culture in the future.
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