What is your experience with culture shock?
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What is your experience with culture shock?
Culture shock can be best described as emotional disorientation characterized by feelings of shock and anxiety. It occurs when you are placed in a foreign environment far away from your hometown, family, and friends. Most people experience a degree of homesickness and distress at the start of their travels.
Why do we experience culture shock?
Culture shock comes from being cut off from the cultural cues and patterns that are familiar—especially the subtle, indirect ways you normally have of expressing feelings. All the nuances of meaning that you understand instinctively and use to make your life comprehensible are suddenly taken from you.
What makes German culture unique?
The people, language, and traditions are what make the German culture unique. It has had a key role in the history of Europe, and not only. It is Germania in Latin, l’Allemagne in French and Almanya in Turkish. Berlin is its capital, but Hamburg, Munich and Cologne are also among the main cities of Germany.
What influenced German culture?
Known as the “Land of Poets and Thinkers,” German culture has been heavily influenced by religion, composers, writers, and philosophers.
How do you experience culture?
Culture is All Around You
- Visit your local museum. Learn about works of art from other countries, and read the biographies of all the artists.
- Read a book.
- Discover how other cultures express themselves… in music, film, and literature.
- Do your research.
- Try new cuisine.
What shock do tourists get in Germany?
The last shock that some tourists get in Germany is the Freikörperkultur, or the “Free Body Culture.” Germans are very open with nudity, so it’s not uncommon to see naked bodies at the beach or in the park. For tourists visiting from more modest countries, this can be shocking, but the Germans think nothing of it.
What are the most important things to know about Germany?
Here are some of the most important things to know about Germany, to minimize your culture shock and put you on the fast-track to integration. Germans are known for being direct. Depending on your own culture, you may even find them downright rude.
What are some of the biggest culture shocks you have experienced?
This is a big culture shock for most people. Sex is openly talked about, posters advertising Sexually Transmittable Diseases are hanging in bus stops and on the TV (after 8pm) you see erotic (not porn…) sex scenes. For Germans, which are very openly talking about sex from the 8th lesson onwards, it is normal.
What are the bad things about shopping in Germany?
Germany has very restrictive shopping hours, and even when they aren’t enforced by law, many shops seem to have a very “meh” attitude towards making money. It’s rare to see a boutique open past 6PM, and even the mall closes by 8PM; yes, even on Saturdays.