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‘Culture Shock’, by H. Douglas Brown

Culture shock is a common experience for a person learning a second language in a second culture. Culture shock refers to phenomena ranging from mild irritability to deep psychological panic and crisis. Culture shock is associated with feelings in the learner of estrangement, anger, hostility, indecision, frustration, unhappiness, sadness, loneliness, homesickness and even physical illness. The person undergoing culture shock views his new world out of resentment, and alternates between being angry at other for not understanding him, and being filled with self pity.