Understanding Culture Stress
- Approximate Time Commitment: 15 minutes
Adjusting to a new culture can be difficult. This article is one element from the CIT Next online course Culture Shock. The article addresses survival skills for missionaries, foreign exchange students, and others working to weather cultural shock as they bridge cultural differences.
Are you past the fun and now into the challenges of living and ministering in a new culture? There are some good principles that you can put into practice as you seek to weather culture shock and adapt well to the place where God has sent you. Survival is not the goal; rather, the goal is to allow God to grow you in a way that prepares you to understand and love others around you. Cultural Shock may be just the course that will help.
For more information about the Culture Shock course and to register, visit here: www.grow2serve.com/ca
Resource Description
Read this helpful one-page article entitled Understanding Culture Stress by Howard Culbertson of Southern Nazarene University. The article addresses survival skills for missionaries, foreign exchange students, and others working to weather cultural shock as they bridge cultural differences. Culbertson looks at the symptoms of culture shock and the “Four Stages”:
- Fun: The excitement and adventure of experiencing new people, things, and opportunities. (also known as the honeymoon stage)
- Flight: Disorientation brings the urge to avoid everything and everyone that is different.
- Fight: The temptation to judge people and things that are different as bad or foolish.
- Fit: Creative interaction with the new culture that includes a willingness to understand and embrace.
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