Culture shock

Common problems include: information overload, language barrier, generation gap, technology gap, skill interdependence, formulation dependency, homesickness (cultural), boredom (job dependency), ethnicity, race, skin color, response ability (cultural skill set).

Research considering the study abroad experiences states that in-country support for students may assist them in overcoming the challenges and phases of culture shock.

[4] Kalervo Oberg first proposed his model of cultural adjustment in a talk to the Women's Club of Rio de Janeiro in 1954.

Excitement may eventually give way to unpleasant feelings of frustration and anger as one continues to experience unfavorable events that may be perceived as strange and offensive to one's cultural attitude.

Language barriers, stark differences in public hygiene, traffic safety, food accessibility and quality may heighten the sense of disconnection from the surroundings.

[10] In the case of students studying abroad, some develop additional symptoms of loneliness that ultimately affect their lifestyles as a whole.

Gary R. Weaver wrote that culture shock has "three basic causal explanations": loss of familiar cues, the breakdown of interpersonal communications, and an identity crisis.

This phenomenon, the reactions that members of the re-entered culture exhibit toward the re-entrant, and the inevitability of the two are encapsulated in the following saying, also the title of a book by Thomas Wolfe: You Can't Go Home Again.

There are three basic outcomes of the adjustment phase:[20] Culture shock has many different effects, time spans, and degrees of severity.

Transition shock is a state of loss and disorientation predicated by a change in one's familiar environment that requires adjustment.