communication and behavior

As my friends said, different cultures have different way of communication and behavior. This one is another problem that all of the international students face with it in new country. Here there is an example of this problem. In 2000, Jenny K reported that International student from Asia countries are often stereotyped as quiets, reserved and non-assertive. These cultures place a compulsion on harmony and respect for authorities. Therefore, many of them are disinclined to share their feeling or emotion, express their opinions or oppositions to anyone, especially to authority figures. Thus instead of emphasizing personal right and assertive communication, Asians tend to emphasize of patience, harmony, respect and deference. Oftentimes, international students struggle between the balance of acculturation and maintaining their own culture. The process of acculturation and adjustment can be stressful. The difference between two cultures can cause a student to experience significant intrapersonal and interpersonal problem and conflicts. Because of these different in culture sometimes students and lecturers have problem for communicate. This situation is same when people go to other country for study and it doesn't matter that which country they go just in different country according to the cultural of that country these effect will be increase or decrease.

Adertisements and cultural shock.

As all of us may know advertisements play the biggest role in today’s societies. They can easily change our minds, prove us that something good is bad, show us we really need some products, make backgrounds for us and etc. lots of international students rely on the advertisements of universities to chose them and select them for their higher education. Advertisements talk about cultures, facilities, majors and so on. When students believe them and go overseas for higher education, they really have made the imaginary picture of a place they are going to. But as they enter the host country, they encounter with totally different situations. At first, problems are hidden because of the new environment and attractiveness. After 2 or 3 month, students will recognize their imagination of the place they wanted to be educated in is amazingly different from the reality. Smoothly, dissatisfactions show off. Because they will believe that the university told them lies in its advertisement.
How do you think? Do you think advertisements about all the aspect of the universities (from languages, behaviors, cultures and finance) can shape the reality for students?

Talking in local languages in an international class by lecturers is cultural shock.

Based on the findings,one of the important things that most of the students were not satisfied with was talking in Malay in front of international students.It is one of the student's concern which causes dissatisfaction.every international student comes to an international university to learn in English.So,talking in Malay or any other local languages in the class might cause disappointment and dissatisfaction.This is cultural shock for international students.They suddenly find themselves among some people who are talking in a language that they have no idea about.Some of the international students make themselves ready to confront different behaviors that they have not seen before.They think that they are ready to come to an international university and country to learn.However,they see some behaviors that they did not expect at all.it means that no matter how well you are prepared, there are many things in a culture that you cannot find in books or internet.
At first, dealing with cultural shock is difficult for international students.However,as time passes some of the international students learn how to deal with it.There are some students who cannot deal with it and come back to their home or try to make friends with people who are coming from their own country.

Culture shock is cause which make separate between lecturer and students.

The relationships between lecturer and international students are rather weak because of different culture and language. The students who come from different country have different behavior. It’s hard for communication and understanding who has different style with our self even if lecturers and students. The main point that separate between lecturers and students are communication. Even though they are using English language to be main language, but it’s still not useful as their own language. Sometime it got some miss take from this point. Another reason which separate between lecturers and students are culture shock which is can happen since first time when they arrived to another country. The culture shock refers to the anxiety and feelings (of surprise, disorientation, uncertainty, confusion, etc.) felt when people have to operate within a different and unknown culture such as one may encounter in a foreign country. It grows out of the difficulties in assimilating the new culture, causing difficulty in knowing what is appropriate and what is not. This is often combined with a dislike for or even disgust (moral or aesthetical) with certain aspects of the new or different culture. (refer from Wikipedia). It’s because of these cause that make students feel resist everything and also hard to understand. I found 2 video that taking about culture shock and I think it can help us to understand what is cause of culture shock as well.

culture shock presentation part1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPfB6GIjM9Q&feature=player_embedded

culture shock presentation part2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H82IFq0HbTQ&feature=player_embedded