CULTURE SHOCK

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The definition of culture shock is the trauma you experience when you move into a culture different from your home culture. Culture shock is the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country, or to a move between social environments, also a simple travel to another type of life. 

The term "Culture Shock" was first introduced by Oberg (in Dayaksini, 2004) to describe the response that deep and negative feelings of depression, frustration, and disorientation that experienced by people living in a new cultural environment. This term expresses direction, feeling not knowing what to do or how to do things in a new environment, and not knowing what is not or appropriate.

Culture Shock can occur in different environments. The thing it can affect individuals who experience displacement from one region to another within their own country to individuals who move to other countries (Dayaksini, 2004).



Causes of culture shock Apart from language barriers, frustration, anxiety, and stress also occur when people are unable to do all the things they normally do in everyday life. This can include activities related to work, home, and free time that they are no longer able to do at all or are no longer able to do as they used to. For example, sometimes because of differences in transportation services, people cannot move as freely or as widely as they used to. Additional problems like telecommunications systems, things like grocery shopping, gas station systems, getting to work, and other things can cause frustration as well.

There are also Symptoms of Culture Shock Although "culture shock" is generally understood as the temporary shock felt when exposed to different cultural habits, ways of thinking and behavior patterns, it actually refers to a psychological state of depression caused by successive experiences of failure in situations unknown social.



This is a burden for anyone living abroad, especially in European countries and the UK. Culture shocks that are usually faced are:

  1. Feeling very isolated, making you tired quickly and prefer to sleep in the room.
  2. Missing family and friends at home. I just wanted to contact them.
  3. Inability to follow the study, because the system is very different and requires you to be active. In addition, reading books and journals in English is clearly more difficult than in Indonesian. 
  4. The people around you feel very unfriendly, making you often angry and disappointed even over small things.
  5. Only want to hang out with students and students from their own country, and do not want to mingle.
  6. The conversations of those around you feel like the rapid and incomprehensible buzz of a bee, leading to low self-esteem and further isolation.
  7. Often have doubts about the decision to study abroad.

    British people are known for their stiff upper lip, an attitude where they will try their best to overcome any problem or challenge, without showing excessive emotion. As a result, they appear stiff and tend to be unfriendly. Moreover, the culture there tends to make people do everything themselves. For those of you who are in the adjustment stage, this attitude will make you feel very uncomfortable because it makes you feel even more lonely.

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