CULTURAL ADJUSTMENT IN THE USA

We're going to talk about what Language , Travel and Culture represent when transferred to another land in the person of an " international student."
  
   Let's take a look at a " foreign student " as the " stranger " in a country that becomes his temporary domicile, but which was not the locus of his socialization. Also, let's look at the coping and the adaptation process as one that will naturally force the " stranger " into being at odds with the host culture for:

   a) the stranger is to some extent expected to conform to the norms of the host culture;

   b) because the stranger's socialization stems from another culture, conformity to a new pttern may prove disturbing.

   c) because the stranger occupies a unique role in the host culture, he can enjoy a certain exemption from conformity, and even a certain freedom of aggression against norms.

       This aggression , as a result  of frustration in conformity will be greater for strangers with long residence than for those with short residence.

        Adjustment as a process over time  seems to follow  a U-shaped curve: adjustment is felt to be easy and successful to begin with; then follow a crisis in which one feels less adjusted, somewhat lonely and unhappy; finally the student begins to feel better adjusted again, becoming more integrated into the foreign community.

        Please visit our Blog on Culture, Travel and Language in order to learn more about what it takes to adjust and learn the language of the host country, its customs and its educational system etc.
        
        Published by LanguageTravelCulture.blogspot.com and written by:
        
         MARIO E ALEXANDRE, Foreign Language And Foreign Student Specialist.


  

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