This rant is for every racist Chinese who’s ever followed a black person in a store, every Italian or Portuguese who’s ever called a southerner trailer trash, every Nigerian who hates Black Americans, every Indian who’s given an American a side eye and the Arabs who came to our country to be educated in our schools and bombed our buildings!

As time progress, the world is becoming a small place to live in. This pave ways for more and more people venturing to other places finding greener pastures and changing locations for personal growth. Although, it seemed exciting to try new places, culture shock is very inevitable. Here are 12 greats ways to lessen culture shock.

A simplified article on culture shock and it’s stages and how they progress.

Cross-cultural adaptation usually takes place in three stages. The first time abroad is a discovery and are enjoyed. Then comes the culture shock that the differences in behavior and perspective are felt.This step can be complicated to live and lead by states of homesickness, depression, withdrawal into oneself. After a while comes the cultural reconciliation and acculturation: the differences are accepted and integrated personal benchmarks.

Moving from one country to another is more than just changing the place you live…

It is not a story nor an essay. But I just felt my nerves pushing me to write something like this. Have you experienced a culture shocked? Maybe most of us experienced it. I am one of those. Those people who were struck by a thunderstorm because they can’t speak in front of the people whom they barely know, can’t move because you’re different from their actions and can’t breathe simply because they’re different. Are they different or Am I? Actually, neither one of us is different. Well that’s my opinion, how ’bout yours?

One of the more subtle traps for a Brit working in the USA, and especially California, is a tendency to think that fellow English speakers are a lot less foreign than, say, German or French speakers.

Do u ever know how and why culture shock happens? Let’s check it out here!

Part two in a series about international volunteering.

Culture shock is a phenomenon facing all people when they come in touch with a different culture. As it may bring about many negative impacts, it is of importance for both businesses and individuals to understand how to cope with it.