1. Six mains aspects of culture shock
1.1. Newcomers suffer strain as they try to adapt.
1.2. They feel a sense of loss and deprivation with respect to friends, status and social and professional roles.
1.3. They feel rejected by and/or reject members of the other culture
1.4. They feel confused with respect to their values and self-identity
1.5. They feel distress, anxiety, and even outrage at and or disgust by foreign customs and routines
1.6. They feel helpless in handing or being able to cope with situations in the new environment.
2. NON VERBAl COMMUNICATION
2.1. Three principal interacting system
2.1.1. The visual
2.1.2. The auditory
2.1.3. The invisible
2.2. TYPES OF NON VERBAL COMUNNICATION
2.2.1. Proxemics
2.2.1.1. Refers to an area to which access is allowed or denied to other people or objects.
2.2.2. Kinesis
2.2.2.1. Refers to the body movements involved in communication, especially as these movements accompany speech.
2.2.3. Oculesis
2.2.3.1. Another important difference in non-verbal communication across cultures occurs in eye behavior. Eye movements perform a variety of different and important communicative functions
2.2.4. Haptics
2.2.4.1. Cultures differ in how they make use of and interpret touch behavior or haptics
2.2.5. Chronemics
2.2.5.1. Time, quite possibly is one off the basis foundations of culture itself, however the usage and importance of time varies significantly among cultures
2.2.6. Silence
2.2.6.1. The role of silence, or the absence of talk, in communication also varies from culture to culture.
2.3. The most important functions of non-verbal behavior
2.3.1. Expressing emotions
2.3.2. Reinforcing, complementing or accenting verbal messages
2.3.3. Acting as a substitute for verbal communication
2.3.4. contradicting verbal message
2.3.5. regulating communicative situations
3. Causes of Culture Shock
3.1. Cultural Distance
3.1.1. The larger the gap between two cultures, the higher the degree of identity vulnerability experience by an individual in a new culture.
3.2. Cognitive Fatigue
3.2.1. Newcomers to a different culture must exert conscious efforts to interpret their new social and physical context.