COM 439 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Culture Shock
21 Aug 2018
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Migrant: a person who leaves the primary cultural context in which they were raised and moves to a new cultural context. Limited time for a specific purpose, have the means to travel. Comes to a region to settle permanently or for an extended period of time. Relocate because they can no longer stay at home. Dialectical differences shape the intercultural migrant"s identity and the changes that this identity undergoes. Feeling of disorientation or discomfort due to the unfamiliarity of surroundings or the lack of familiar cues in the environment. People are less likely to experience cultural shock if they separate themselves from the new environment. Long term adaptation is difficult and people generally resist it in the short term. Some people adjust to only certain parts of a new culture. The migrant wants relationships with other groups and is welcome in the host culture and gives up aspects of their own culture.
