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brianamorgan · Novice Joined: 22 May 2009 Posts: 36 Location:

Being an expat is not easy. Especially during your first day or week of the country. There are some things that you should follow as well as etiquette. If you just let your culture and ways of life way back home to used, the locales would find you illiterate or ignorant. For you to blend in a certain country’s culture and ways of life you should have to learn to adapt what they have. This is what I learn when I was an expat in France.

Mike · Site Admin Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 4512 Location:

so many foreigners in thailand have failed in adapting
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Wocca · Scribe Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 970 Location:

CULTURE SHOCK:

Studies show that predictable stages occur when
people enter a new culture, country, or environment.
The length and intensity of each stage varies from
person to person.

1. Honeymoon stage
2. Hostility stage
3. Adjustment or acceptance stage
4. Home stage
5. Re-entry or reverse culture shock

With respect to RE-ENTRY or REVERSE CULTURE SHOCK,
some people say that they do not experience culture shock
when they are in another country, but rather when they return
to their own country. They expect things to be different when they
go abroad but when they come home, no one expects them to have
changed. It can often be more difficult to come home than it is for
foreigners to stay in the foreign country which they have adapted
themselves to, over a period of time.

http://www.travbuddy.com/Culture-Shock-v171626