Culture Shock & The 4 Stages of Adaptation

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When we move to another country, we are often exposed to a culture different from ours and need to go through four stages of transition: Honeymoon, frustration, adjustment, and adaptation. Some people are excited about the foreign culture for months, and others start to get frustrated on day one. And then there are those who experience a culture shock that is so strong that they leave before adjusting.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:35 Honeymoon Bliss
00:49 Frustration & culture shock
01:07 Adjustment & familiarity
01:23 Adaptation & mastery
01:59 The Paris syndrome
02:34 Reverse culture shock
02:53 Forced transition
03:12 Preschool anxiety
03:40 Lysgaard’s research
04:19 Your travel story
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@sem8389 Ай бұрын

So with traveling you basically are always in the honey moon phase

@87solarsky Ай бұрын

That really depends on how differentiated your perception of the place you're traveling is. And once you're dealing with locals and get an idea of what everyday life is like there, any "notions" you're entertaining might soon be corrected...

@sterlingarcher1962 Ай бұрын

For the most part, yes. Though there are certainly other factors like @87solarsky pointed out. I've been to sixty something countries and I've had a variety of experiences in this regard. Depending on your expectations for living, what may or may not bother you and whatnot, some places you're just never going to adjust to. Example; I left the US a number of years ago for good and after being in Colombia for a couple of years I've been here in the Philippines since 2019 and I hate it. I think the people are awful, the culture is sickening and I'm tired of every person I speak to trying to scam me because I'm foreign. On the other hand, my Swiss friend who moved here from living in Egypt for 8 years thinks it's quite nice here and the people don't bother him. So is it that he's more adaptable or more laid back or is it that Egypt is 100 times worse than here (and it is)? My suggestion is to purchase less crap, you don't need a new phone or whatever. Go travel and find out what the world looks like. You'll find a lot of lies you've been told and you'll see many ways of life, plants and animals, meet wildly fantastic people and get to know yourself even better. Stay away from tourist spots, use local transportation and talk to locals. ENJOY!

@sprouts Ай бұрын

Excellent point. The baseline matters !

@mikethespike7579 23 күн бұрын

I fully agree. I've travelled far and wide in the world in my day, Never stayed longer than a few weeks, just long enough to enjoy the culture without getting frustrated.

@rphb5870 20 күн бұрын

yea that is the whole point of being a tourist. For me, one of the funniest things in the "Tucker goes to Moscow" videos was how amazed he was over seeing shopping cards that he had to deposit money into. Because seriously how can he not have known that.

@drrtfm Ай бұрын

I think that concept likely applies to many other things, such as starting a new job or even just moving to a different phase in our life (e.g., going to college).

@rphb5870 19 күн бұрын

85% of people should not go to college as they are not smart enough for it and there aren't sufficient jobs afterwards. the result are that they educate themselves to unemployment and cripple themselves with an inescapable lifelong debt

@georockstar09 Ай бұрын

lived in Romania for 12 years. My brother and I adapted easily, my parents, not. They kept complaining that nobody visited them, until I spelled it out that YOU were supposed to go OUT into town every evening or so and meet up with friends who also went there. They never did, they were always alone and frustrated - meanwhile I was meeting up with friends telling me they missed my parents!

@Electrostatic_Fusion 25 күн бұрын

Where are you from? Can you speak romanian? If so, how'd you learn?

@georockstar09 24 күн бұрын

@@Electrostatic_Fusion I'm an American who grew up there. Yeah, I can speak it.

@Electrostatic_Fusion 24 күн бұрын

@@georockstar09 that's so cool! I can speak English, French and Norwegian (I'm learning)

@vanillagorilla8696 18 күн бұрын

I'm in the US and I'm poor...had no idea I was actually Romanian.

@georockstar09 18 күн бұрын

@@vanillagorilla8696 not sure what you mean... romanians do pretty well for themselves.

@rickrose5632 Ай бұрын

Its important to talk about reverse culture shock like in the video because its causes new problems that a person would never expect

@rickrose5632 Ай бұрын

Heck this could be applied to start a new job or a similar situation

@edwardradwanski197 Ай бұрын

I agree that reverse culture can be the bigger problem. When I went to live in Africa for two years, I expected things to be different, but when I returned home I found my perceptions and values had changed, and I had trouble adjusting. It took awhile for me to realize I wasn't the same person and that I needed to adjust to the culture of home.

@jonimenges3896 23 күн бұрын

After living in Poland and writing my thesis in Auschwitz returning to a sweet student life in a southern German student city actually send me into depression. It was not Auschwitz but the reality back home and the beautiful life that I couldn't adapt back to. Happened to a close friend as well who worked as a lawyer for refugees in Greece.

@danilo4631 18 күн бұрын

siamo più fragili di quel che si direbbe

@cupidok2768 17 күн бұрын

Please let me live in Paris. And then reverse culture shock

@bboyneon92 Ай бұрын

I can tell this also applies to a city which is rapidly changing(or what we call developing). It's crazy having to undergo all this in a place you call home.

@Kkubey Ай бұрын

If you move or travel, you can always go back home. But if it's your home changing, there is no place to recharge at.

@warsawpacked418 18 күн бұрын

Can confirm. I didn't move to a foreign country, but a foreign country moved to me.

@wasanthamorawaka1602 Ай бұрын

I think the video is 100% correct. I was living in five countries 3 in the West and two in the East. Am old now and still living abroad occasionally. I saw some foreigners who leave their countries of origin to live in a foreign country go back because they could not integrated into the new culture for many reasons. Some were not accepted to the societies based on racism, different mode of work ethics or descrimination.Most people adapt because some have no other choice rather than going away from their native countries. I took everything easy, worked hard as I can, did not let emotions cover the realities. Living in a foreign country is not easy and if you are a tourist then you see a completely different picture than when you start living in a foreign country . Thanks for the excellent video.

@sprouts Ай бұрын

Keep going, keep learning 💪 ;)

@sittingstill3578 26 күн бұрын

Have you visited other countries with people who haven’t lived abroad? They only seem interested in the tourist sites and souvenirs. It’s very disappointing. When I go to a place, I just want to see how normal people live and go to typical places. I’m not interested in tours or constantly being shut out normal foods. I went on a trip with folks from a country I was working in and never once ate any local food. It was so sad and depressing. They literally ordered food from restaurants of their own culture for every meal.

@karenrodgers56 Ай бұрын

This is such an important topic. I spent a year in Mexico in the 1980s (before the internet of course) and felt I had travelled to the other side of the moon or into another space/ time dimension..For two months I had a deep sense of unreality. If i had realised how hard it was going to be I would probably not have had the courage to go. However, I am so glad I did. The trip was utterly life changing in a good way. It gave me the vocabulary and confidence to articulate a whole range of aspirations I would otherwise have been incapable of even framing. I woud not have lased the year without my wonderful hosts Nena and Dante or without my friend Conchita and her wonderful family. When I came back to the Uk I had a kind of reverse culture shock which was not nearly as challenging as the first one and which has never quite gone away. I now see how isolated Southern British people tend to be and how much happier we would all be if we lived espisodic rather than clock time, finishing conversation rather than dashing off and if we prioritised friends and family over material wealth. warmest regards, Karen (in Celaya, Guanajuato 1986-1987)

@sprouts Ай бұрын

Wow!

@wittykittywoes 17 күн бұрын

wow!! thank you for sharing :)

@homer2281 Ай бұрын

also depends on wether u have financial problems or u cant get a comfortable place or job

@sprouts Ай бұрын

True

@selen457 Ай бұрын

Just changing your city in your own country for university education may also have the same effect :D

@espinoname2988 Ай бұрын

I lived in the uk for 4 years, i went with super high expectations, but my honeymoon was crushed within the first semester of university. I never got out of my frustration phase until I left. I never made any British friends, despite being surrounded by them in my university lectures. Then i I moved to Switzerland, much more unsure if it was a good idea after suffering so much in the UK. I loved it with a passion for a year and a half and didn't ever really experience a huge culture shock. Within a few months I was dating a lovely Swiss guy which is still my partner, and I also made several Swiss friends. My English was perfect before i moved to the UK, and my German was okay, but not nearly as good as my English, and it still isn't. I did have a period where I got frustrated, but in particular at my university and how it runs and not so much at the country. Of course there are things in Switzerland that mildly annoy me or I wish were more like in my native Spain, but I am now more attune with many Swiss behaviours than Spanish ones. I get extremely frustrated when I go to Spain and see everything half broken and dirty, people making public spaces dirty with purpose and all the shouting and noise everywhere. I am also more flexible with time that the typical Swiss, but it is extremely annoying to me when someone comes like 30 mins late or you ask them specifically to please be on time because of a specific reason and they don't manage and mess uo the whole plan. In particular in more formal situations like doctor appointments or work meetings, that someone is late boils my blood. I'm very happy in Switzerland after 3 years living here, so I think how you adapt also depends on your expectations and how suitable the receiving country is for your personality and culture and also how lucky you are. Perhaps also where in your life you are, since it's not the same to move from a happy situation into a bad one than from a bad one into the unknown, which will probably be better. And it's also not the same to adapt to a new country for the first time than the second time, since somd stuff you already learned, I was also 18 in my first move out and 22 in the second, so I suppose a bit more age and maturity also helps.

@gamingforfun8662 Ай бұрын

Switzerland being more beautiful, clean and egalitarian than the uk probably helped along with being close with the locals

@espinoname2988 Ай бұрын

I did always feel like a foreigner in the UK despite speaking perfect English. I think the British didn't do it with purpose but they made me feel always as the outsider. Swiss are very different in that aspect, I never felt left out or discriminated, and people often help me with my German or even switch to English if they realise I struggle, whilst British sometimes laughed at me when I couldn't understand some slang terms. The weather and the beauty of the country also helps massively, that's true. Being Spanish, from the Mediterranean coast, it was very hard for me to handle the lack of light in the north of England. In Switzerland this is much better except in the winter months: spring, autumn and summer are lovely here, I even prefer it to Spain, where it's too hot for my taste. And I appreciate some rainy days to help keep the air clean and my garden fresh. 😊

@chibha96 Ай бұрын

I find culture shock can be reduced by having a realistic picture rather than a rosy picture. To have a realistic picture one must learn the language & culture as a right of passage which can be effective rather than relying on natives for assistance.

@OmarJames Ай бұрын

This is a great video. Myself and another student from my town went on an exchange year to Japan in the early 2000s. I made it out of stage 2 and had a great year, he didn't and came home early. It's a shame because I made some lifelong friends I consider family and I go back often while he has never set foot in Japan again. Gotta be prepared for the rough times

@myinquisitiveself Ай бұрын

I moved to Scotland in 2019, and I have just entered Stage 2: Frustration five years later. They rain didn't bother me, some days it was cozy to snuggle up with a book and a cuppa... I come from a culture that's more reserved, we are not as chatty and laid back as the Scottish, so I struggle to integrate and make friends or form relationships, especially after a recent incident where I had to move to another town. I'm trying to find ways to stay authentic but also fit into the local culture. At the end of the day, I do feel like a guest and ought not to expect people to conform to my way of living.

@elsie4802 23 күн бұрын

oof this is interesting for me as someone who’s thinking of moving to scotland. i come from a nordic country, also quite reserved so i’m a bit worried how the integration part would go..

@Zenas521 Ай бұрын

Thirty years ago, I was forced to move to the eastern side of the state. I was 17, almost 18, and sense I was a miner, had to go because mom got a job. I graduated high school with strangers. I never really fit in. I am still out here because I can't afford to move back home. I live like an exile, both from home and the local community. I don't have any opportunities for good paying jobs. I can't pursue hobby interests. I try to make the best of it, but I am kept out. Sense I don't have any friends to visit, I just sit in my apartment feeling my life fading away.

@elsie4802 23 күн бұрын

I think you should focus on trying to change your situation, no matter how small a change.

@TheGrinningViking Ай бұрын

Paris does always smell of pee. You'd think they would put enough cash into such a concentrated tourist location to take care of that (Either with the humane option involving housing/jobs or the other one where you round up the homeless and bus them far away every night. Either way all pubs need to have a public bathroom.) But as in many cases they take the stupid option where everything smells of piss forever.

@laurentrobitaille2204 Ай бұрын

This is true for many tourist hotspots, New York being another prime example.

@MCArt25 18 күн бұрын

It's almost as if being visited by millions of people who stay a few weeks and then leave could be an actual problem to public sanitation.

@1JackTorS Ай бұрын

Right now, the French natives are experiencing severe culture shock without ever having to leave their own country. It's a perpetual stage 2.

@malegria9641 25 күн бұрын

😐 mec the immigrants are better than the older French people

@aryank3014 Ай бұрын

Had a similar experience in Russia which was explained in the video. But not all of the people surrounding me felt similarly during stage 2 and 3.

@hersirirminsul 24 күн бұрын

After growing up in urban London, I lived 8 years in Norway, in the country side, and adapted almost from day 1. The reason for this was very simple. I was determined to fit in and make it my new permanent home. About 6 months in I had a couple of weeks where my brain was switching gear from, think-in-English-translate-to-Norwegian-then-speak-Norwegian / listen-to-Norwegian-translate-to-English-thoughts, to, think-and-listen-in-Norwegian, where I could hardly communicate at all! I went back to London for a break and apart from the mental re-boot it gave me, hated it and couldn't wait to get back. My conclusion - will-power and optimism has a lot to do with how 'your experience may differ'.

@davidletasi3322 Ай бұрын

I lived in Japan for two years. Enjoyed every day I was there. The people were friendly, the sights and towns were amazing. I had my own house I rented, and neighbors were interesting and diverse. One stage for me, I just had a fantastic experience. However, I did have a network of American friends as a support group there, so that does make a difference.

@angeronalove5799 Ай бұрын

These different stages can cycle over and over again. I've lived in three different countries aside from my native country, and I have 14 years in Mexico. I still find some vacillation. You're never done learning.

@tarneemfares137 Ай бұрын

An insightful video. Thank you

@bottlerockets94 17 күн бұрын

This is accurate. I've spent a lot of time in the military and am currently serving in the Peace Corps and have seen each stage.

@priyaranganayaki6788 Ай бұрын

This is 100% true. It took 4 years for me to adjust & adapt to the new place (people, habits, language etc) after marriage, from city to town. No stage 1, it was direct to stage 2. Later 3&4.

@donj2222 Ай бұрын

I lived and worked in Sweden for a year 82-83, I loved it the entire time.

@PirateOfTheNorth Ай бұрын

It took me 15 years to fully adjust after my parents moved the family to a different country. I spent years in stage 2.

@efstathiaioannidou5205 Ай бұрын

Thank you for the comment. I'm still to level 2, struggling for the third after 5 years 😅😅

@sprouts Ай бұрын

I can very much relate. I had a similar experience a few years back. But the moment that I decided to leave again I could let go of my expectations, and I started stage 3. After this I didn’t bring such high expectations with me again to any new place. It made everything way easier.

@loirenhuh Ай бұрын

When I arrived from Turkey (which is muslim majority country) I quitted eating a pork

@LG-pu3wk 27 күн бұрын

I'm super obsessed with Sprouts video explainers! Can anyone please share what tool they're using? I just love these cartoons so much T.T

@maxifyone5309 Ай бұрын

"paris syndrome" Ofcourse its France

@runw1ththehunted Ай бұрын

😂

@Ultras_450 16 күн бұрын

Diavolo, you are out of loop

@elliotvasstrandhoddge9423 21 күн бұрын

i moved from one side of my contry to the other. experienced massive culture shock. then i moved back home after 3 years. and experianced just as storng a culture shock when i came back to my old ways

@AllanHinde-mb2pr Ай бұрын

Moving abroad soon so this came at a great time

@laurenc7410 Ай бұрын

Same

@AllanHinde-mb2pr Ай бұрын

@@laurenc7410 good luck with your move

@MONARCH_FLIES Ай бұрын

This is so true!! I’m American peruvian but I’ve lived in the states for most of my life. It took me around 2 years after I moved to Peru to feel fully comfortable. I miss the states sometimes, but when I go back and visit I end up missing Peru! Now I have two homes and I am happy :)

@sprouts Ай бұрын

What a beautiful thing you said! Two homes:)

@hectorho955 Ай бұрын

Well for me it's not exactly how it worked out. I studied in Canada alone as a teenager for four years (I'm Asian btw), and I can't really recall being through the first two stages while going nor coming back home, and I can't even speak proper English when I first arrive. Now looking back, I could be unconsciously dealing with many things much more serious than cultural shock (and to conclude that part, it takes me decades to start realizing and progressing, if there's anyway I could describe how they differ from one another). So I guess not only I was very lucky to went by this path I took, there could be many other factors that are more important than the human mind than a cultural shock in some more extreme cases.

@AI-hx3fx 26 күн бұрын

I lived on the mainland U.S. and Japan, each for quite some time cumulatively, and coming home was always an exercise in adjustment. Each was familiar to a degree, but returning to even speaking the way we do felt utterly bizarre. Fresh from Japan, I still had to remind myself I need not bow (although it's no bad thing here), while coming from America it felt odd to cope with a warm place all over again. Naturally, the food was again different and I missed what was relatively cheap and convenient back then, since steaks of that size or onigiri can be pricey versus street food.

@YouTubeLate Ай бұрын

Japanese people sure like to scrutinize foreigners even in their own countries.

@sittingstill3578 26 күн бұрын

I have lived abroad in many different countries and never experienced culture shock. My siblings have and it’s even been to the point where it was painful for them but not me. Not sure why I am like this. None of my siblings have lived abroad as adults which is odd. My parents did experience culture shock in the first country we lived in but substantially less in each subsequent one and all together spent about 40 years abroad before returning for retirement. In my times returning to my home country I haven’t experienced reverse culture shock either.

@LifelivedbyEve Ай бұрын

Yes I experienced the forced transition as a teenager and still hate it here

@qwert-jn1rs Ай бұрын

It feels like different countries in different parts of China. My physical education teacher said he once worked in Hainan (I am from Zhengzhou), and when his clothes got wet, he hung them outside like he was at home. However, after hanging them for a month, they still didn't dry and they got moldy😂

@EvelynKirkaldyArt_BearSmart Ай бұрын

It's taken me wayyyy longer than a year. The honeymoon experience was iffy. Tried to find things I liked and found some. Went thru a period of mental distress and then serious illness. I may just now be adjusting after 5 years, but still looking for a way to leave..

@sofiassunlight Ай бұрын

Honeymoon 4 months, frustration 4 years..my American life finally came to the point of comfort 3 years ago.

@HerbertLandei Ай бұрын

I think the model needs a phase 0 - preparation: Having a good idea about what to expect may tone down the honeymoon euphoria a bit, but helps greatly to get through the frustration. Every bit of knowledge can help you when you can't think clearly because everything seems awful.

@mahxylim7983 Ай бұрын

Basically the plot of InsideOut, Riley's parent didn't notice her culture shock

@lejamesbron5880 25 күн бұрын

I observe this with interracial/intercultural dating as well. The honeymoon bliss phase is a thing since expectations are very low so standards are low as well.

@joy_air Ай бұрын

I feel that we need to talk more about forced transition. Many people know about "honeymoon", some know about Paris syndrome. But almost NON know about forced transition, how unpleasant it is, what struggle person encounter, even if the country has good laws and bureaucratic infrastructure for newcomers. I can’t even describe what people face in countries where there is no such infrastructure. It's borderline existing as a second-rate person.

@einienj3281 Ай бұрын

Unrealistic expectations are the individuals own fault.

@runw1ththehunted Ай бұрын

Tru

@einienj3281 Ай бұрын

@@runw1ththehunted Sure, You could blame marketing too, but there's a lot of information available out there. Talk to locals before packing up your life. If you think you are going to visit/move to a story book magical utopia where your poop doesn't stink...then the word "naive" doesn't describe you well enough.

@runw1ththehunted Ай бұрын

@@einienj3281 preach

@einienj3281 Ай бұрын

@@runw1ththehunted 😄🤘🏻 Me: I want to live on the moon, bc it's made out of cheese! Friend: No it's not, don't be silly. I travel to the moon anyway, with my cheese grater. Me on the moon; 😐🥺😭

@justaguy3518 Ай бұрын

they're also a result of propaganda

@Wraith540 14 күн бұрын

When I saw the thumbnail I actually though this would be a video about someone moving to Vancouver, Canada.

@sprouts 10 күн бұрын

@emjizone 25 күн бұрын

4:19 That's precisely why most ERASMUS exchange programs in Europe are 9 months long: the length is *designed to maximise trauma and frustration.* 🙄 As soon as students adjust and start to feel at home, they must come back and feel at home nowhere, neither there or in their country of origin.

@shannonnewman3091 17 күн бұрын

My Life in Japan was like that . Big fun !

@kairinase 18 күн бұрын

Go to Malaysia... seriously you would experience more culture, and less shock. The locals are good mannered and albeit having poor amenities in some areas, you'll adapt easily and make new friends. Some foreign workers even preferred to stay and not leave! They are the people who would likely to shock you!

@AT-nn9dd Ай бұрын

Ya... I went to frustration and adaptation and still there 2 years in

@sprouts Ай бұрын

Where?

@MCArt25 18 күн бұрын

Upon learning English language and about American culture I actually experienced a long distance version of culture shock, where previously I was deeply fascinated and in love with American culture I've now become disgusted with it and come to the opinion that I'd never want to live there.

@roguegryphonica3147 26 күн бұрын

Honeymoon... 1-4 weeks, Adjustment 1-2 months, Cultural integration 2-5 months... If you stay for 3 months expect reverse culture shock at some level.

@pratyushshaw2819 12 күн бұрын

India is so diverse that whenever I moved from one state to another I experienced a culture shock

@maavet2351 16 күн бұрын

going to paris in 2014, I'm not surprised

@geckoo9190 Ай бұрын

I don't know, I was one year and half in Canada and the honey moon phase lasted that long, even when I didn't speak English when I arrived, I guess the culture was not that different, I am very adaptable, also it is safer than here in Mexico, so I could go outside and take public transportation without any risk.

@DerDoMeN Ай бұрын

I've never in my life felt that I belong somewhere... Am a hodgepodge of local, remote and my own culture to begin with. So I never viewed places from the lens of me belonging/adapting/appreciating other people but from the lens of how much people intrude into my private world (the more they intrude the more I'll hate them). In the end the way I view things is summed up by: X is a beautiful place with only one disadvantage - it's full of xes...

@gabrielfantin2397 Ай бұрын

Oh hey! Under a minute! Better to leave a comment here!

@pavendax 27 күн бұрын

2 month in russia for study. im allright with all the differences, its just im really frustated with the langugae. Even I can speak 3 languages, that doesnt make me a better learning when learning a new language because I never learn a new language before, I grow up with them thats how I got it.

@TheAllSeeingEye2468 Ай бұрын

America is in a culture shock. With the alphabet people and we are in the anger stage

@colinsanders3667 Ай бұрын

I went to stay in France not really wanting to. 8.5 years later , now divorced, I could not leave quickly enough !!!! So glad and happy to be out of that culture and those arrogant entitled french !! If any reading this is thinking of moving there , DON'T !!!!

@PraveenKumar-kj8rq Ай бұрын

0:44 That's Hindu temple in 3rd pic That's awesome ♥

@tats8666 Ай бұрын

In NZ we have a lot of immigrants which I think is a good thing, sort of being one myself given that I was born overseas, although my father is originally from NZ. What I tend to notice is that sometimes people form their own communities with other expats of similar backgrounds and never really adjust of fit into the society of the place they have moved to, which I can't judge as it's the individuals personal choice. However, I do see some frustration and resentment from others who believe that they have adjusted or are the so called "people from here" and to some extent I can see why, but you can't expect people to change if they don't want. I have also met people who did not choose to immigrate such as spouses who would rather have stayed where they came from or those who came as children who never really adjusted, but when they go back to visit their place of origin it feels foreign (no place stays the same) so they spiral into a state of depression without a sense of belonging and that is also sad.

@sprouts Ай бұрын

True! Thank you for sharing your observations.

@cattietorres8182 4 күн бұрын

I've been here in the Philippines for about a year already and I feel I can't adjust, the problem is that with my partner we have financial problems. I want to bring her to my country, but I don't have the money yet. So how to deal with the cultural shock in this case, if I can't go anywher now.

@HakendaNatan Ай бұрын

good

@samwise-my4gq 18 күн бұрын

The point is not to have unreasonable expectations.

@sprouts 18 күн бұрын

Yup

@mrsnelliebee Ай бұрын

One cultural shock that many will experience if they come live in Bulgaria is that when kids start nursery/kindergarten parents are not expected to attend the adaptation, in fact we are prohibited to enter into the nursery/kindergarten at all…

@yt-sh Ай бұрын

timeline so 2 months of honeymoon + 4 months of adjustment = 6 months happy and 6 months of frustration then finally adaptation(post adjustment) after 1 year

@UlugNaar Ай бұрын

I'm at steps 2, 3 and 4 now after 10 years in the Netherlands. I hate this place. Especially the people.

@ViolenVaymire Ай бұрын

I still have a vivid memory of being dropped off at my first daycare.. was 3 at the time, Through a fit! Banged on the class as I saw my mom Drive away, I thought she was permanently abandoning me.. It was extremely traumatic. I never did make any friends, connect with any of my teachers, and hated the rest of my days there. Anecdote: Ever since that day I swear it created in me a permeant distain for being anywere but with my mother. I Took no interest in friends for the majority of my life, HATED school, and had many behavioral problems(Not related to my mother being a bad mom, She wasn't)

@sprouts Ай бұрын

So graphic 😮 Thanks for sharing this

@fadlilahnoviarahmah7791 Ай бұрын

❤

@garyfrancis6193 16 күн бұрын

That explains the last 34 yesrs of my life and not in English either or even use the Roman alphabet. What I dee is people are all the same and talk about the same things in different languages. Once you learn their language you realize that.

@hermask815 27 күн бұрын

Aren’t the phases longer? Some can persist for years.

@priscilamartinezavila194 Ай бұрын

This explains what happened to me when I entered a relationship to conservative man.. I became too overwhelmed … I wish I had seen this sooner

@demoncloud6147 Ай бұрын

The background music tells the tale of a country 😅 The orange yellow country

@jjewell2076 28 күн бұрын

My biggest culture shock experience was when I went to Pakistan to meet my now wife.

@Eledore 24 күн бұрын

Note that some personalities experience it as 2 1 3 4.

@micheleweiss5563 Ай бұрын

Sometimes there are factors that are disagreeable and have nothing to do with cultural norms, but bad behavior. A factor among many tourists is “virtue signaling” their tolerance, instead of criticizing anything. With those who are well seasoned, these don’t pass the smell test (pun intended). Labelling something awful as “cultural”can be viewed as patronizing. In absolving those few elements, nasty, bad habits are tolerated for “cultural” reasons, and never challenged; just pushed aside as not worthy of anyone’s effort for improvement. Explaining problems away as cultural is easy and commitment-free. I do get it for sure, but see it for what it is.

@MCArt25 18 күн бұрын

which habits we characterize as "nasty bad habits" is still defined by cultural norms, like how Americans always seem to talk twice as loudly as everybody else but never realize it, and then berate others for not being as enlightened as the country that still struggles with concepts like public infrastructure, social security or affordable public healthcare.

@cancatcannothaz Ай бұрын

orange and india has lot more deeper meaning than you unknowingly depicted here lol good video as always 🫶🏿

@sprouts Ай бұрын

Oh!

@RaahimAzfar Ай бұрын

the irony is that it's india, where the honeymoon phase gets nuked by the amount of traffic and trash instantly

@bAa-xj3ut Ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@Pocketfarmer1 20 күн бұрын

Wait, there is a syndrome based on 20 travelers to Paris out of the millions of tourists that go every year. Gotta call bs.

@oupwo7468 24 күн бұрын

About France : It has been degrading for the past 40 to 50 years and never stopped going down to the point the country is becoming a shithole due to high socialism and corruption.

@Ooja1980 Ай бұрын

Do you think all cultures are in some way equal? Do you think if you approach any culture with a similar mentality & openness you will reach a stage of adaptation eventually? & if so, do you think such adaptation is good? If I move into a community that treats certain groups of people as inferiors, is adjusting here even moral? If the culture you work among is all in favor of some totalitarian form of government & scuffs at human rights for everybody, do you think you would recognize yourself after you reach adaptation to that? Or are you shallow enough to theorize about cultures as if they're just different interpretations of cuisines & arts without fundamental value distinctions? Some cultures are actually superior, & you have to recognize that, & if you don't believe your own culture to be superior, be sure that the actual Nazies & jihadis do think they are! Hollow cultural voids in your mind will not open you up to others, to the contrary, you will have a stain from surrounding colors & remain colorless & self loathing.

@Bluestlark 18 күн бұрын

Twitter needs to learn from this video,maybe those wankahs won't try to change the sense of humor of my country becuase they can't take a effin joke. In before anyone says anything I'm from latin america, and yes this happes far too often e.e

@doggoandyeet1608 Ай бұрын

you need to vibrate higher...

@damie9412 26 күн бұрын

Nive

@himanshusingh801 29 күн бұрын

Bro used india to teach us..okay

@midloran 18 күн бұрын

What's so bad about that?

@glukdunduk 13 күн бұрын

@@midloran the author always can use his brilliant country as an example how it’s culture an frustrate and move people to depression

@user-nm9wl8rh2s Ай бұрын

why frustration became bikini ?why not be suited ?

@CA_STUDENT_NITIN Ай бұрын

India'sstory of foreigner Like if india 🎉🎉

@Keith-tz2jy Ай бұрын

Don't travel alone.

@COM70 Ай бұрын

You should qualify that this is mostly applicable to neuro typical people

@azzurracupini6441 Ай бұрын

Yeah maybe for neurodivergent people there are another kind of situations and problems to deal with!

@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug 12 күн бұрын

Doesn't really work that way when you're autistic... every country's culture is annoying including your own, and you never have a rosy red feeling about any culture or feel comfortable anywhere. Though being in a foreign culture (or hanging around people from a different culture) has the advantage of seeming slightly more "normal" because your quirks is assumed to be because of your cultural background or language difficulties.

@calebdyrud8418 Ай бұрын

Hahaha 😂 aaahhhh🤣

@tal2agamer498 17 күн бұрын

That's there's something called Tourism

@anonimosu7425 18 күн бұрын

I developed ocd after visiting japan.

@dulio12385 26 күн бұрын

Funny they use India as an example; Never mind the culture shock, the olfactory and digestive shock alone will send you running for the airport... or more likely the toilet.