Culture Shocks in 21 first century

Nowadays in a globalized world people from all over the world emerge to live cordially with each other cultures. Due to we have to deal with culture shocks, specially because creates a melt pot since each person brings his customs to enrich the culture of this country, but sometimes this experience takes difficulties and anxiety between people, consequently appears symptoms such an apathy, and exclusion that may be characterized by behavioral disorders, such as xenophobia which can be manifested by the affected individual.

Firstly, Culture shock is a state of incomprehension, anxiety, disorientation and suffering as an individual suddenly exposed to a social or cultural environment radically different from his own. A good example of this situation It happens frequently for the international students and immigrants where cultural conflicts become visible not only when students come to school and learn new ways of living there, also to get adapted from different beliefs and religion thoughts of the society which are challenged by intellectual interested for deeper understandings. At the time the country where they are living feels a rejection to new changes expressed by xenophobia and sometime with violence acts that shows the ignorance of the people to expand their possibilities and thoughts.

Despite that, cultural mixes in countries brings benefits to the society in order to know better some aspect of other cultures that probably sometime we haven’t hear or be familiar with, that provide to the people the opportunity to don’t believe in external forces judgments , and excluding them to the community because they are from somewhere. In addition to that, this experience brings a direct connection with all over the world and may be very persuasive and reasonable to many people according to understand that the world is not a standard practice.

To sum up, the main reason that people experience cultural shock in other countries is basically because citizens practiced a particular culture as they are basis on, being so strongly attached to their own culture. Due to they sometimes forget to be respectful and open to know relevant aspects from different societies, generating ethnocentrism in their countries , that´s why is significant to improve international exchanges between countries in order to produce an interconnected societies .