Five Stages of Culture Shock

Decorated China Olympics car

• Honeymoon/Tourist
• Irritation-to-Anger
• Rejection/Regression
• Integration/Assimilation
• Reverse or Reentry

You can read the entire article here

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Finance Your Life Overseas

“One of the first things I noticed about China was that all the men carried purses and the women held hands. This phenomenon shot straight to the top of my list of “Weird World Wonders” and stayed there until a mere five minutes later, when I went looking for a bathroom at the airport and came face to face with my first squatty potty.

This was culture shock, pure and simple, and I was already moving from the first stage of it – the honeymoon, or tourist, stage, which I had entered before we ever left the States – into the second, the irritation-to-anger stage. “

The article is amusing and informative, and I highly recommend reading it.

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