Shannon had visited family in Montreal in Canada once in the past as a traveller, and she kept in touch with her cousins as much as she could. Athough she has visited Canada before, it was only for a short period of time, therefore she would not have experienced many intercultural miscommunications that one would if they were migrating. Due to family circumstances, it was only Shannon and her Mother moving to Montreal, because her Brother was in his most important year at highschool at the time. Shannon was upset that her Mother was making her move and felt like she was splitting the family apart. Although she was raised to be respectful and well mannered, she did not agree with her Mother’s decision.
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This extension introduces reentry culture shock. This stage is similar to the first, and may occur when the individual returns to their home country. They are forced to adapt the once taken-for-granted routines that the individual has forgotten and grown out of (Lustig, 2006). When Shannon visits family and friends in New Zealand, she finds it hard to adapt to the new environment and routines. Lustig (2006) suggests that the reason the individual is can be more depressed and stressed than the entry culture shock, is because they may feel let down by their friends’ and familys’ disinterest about their intercultural experiences. What annoys Shannon the most when she visits home, are the statements and jokes about her being more of a Canadian than a Kiwi. She has swapped words such as rubbish for garbage, and motorway for highway, but this is something that she has adapted from the culture in Canada to make it easier for her friends in Canada to understand her. Shannon feels that her friends and family don’t know the extent of what she has been through, and torn between cultures. Ting-Toomey and Chung (2012) state that the intensity of the reentry culture shock depends on the distance between the two cultures. As Canada can have many similarities to New Zealand, in an individualistic sense, we can say that the intensity of her reentry culture shock was not as severe as …show more content…
Buying into a stereotype first, then sticking to it, is the attribution error premature closure. Oetzel (2009) explains that this error occurs when an individual becomes lazy in trying to make sense of someone’s behaviour, and they attribute their behaviour to a stereotype. Lustig (2006) explains the action of stereotyping as taking a category of people and making attributions and assumptions about every person that belongs to that category. Students at Shannon’s new school would ask her ridiculous questions about riding sheep to school, riding whales, and having electricity in New Zealand. All of the students had a premature judgement of a New Zealander, and they were asking Shannon questions in a joking manner to see if the attributions were true and also to make fun of her and her culture. There are many problems for these attribution errors, the main one being othering. For these people making inaccurate attributions about Shannon because she is new in the country is judgemental and wrong, and no one should be made to feel like an
Culture is generally considered the main …show more content…
This extension introduces reentry culture shock. This stage is similar to the first, and may occur when the individual returns to their home country. They are forced to adapt the once taken-for-granted routines that the individual has forgotten and grown out of (Lustig, 2006). When Shannon visits family and friends in New Zealand, she finds it hard to adapt to the new environment and routines. Lustig (2006) suggests that the reason the individual is can be more depressed and stressed than the entry culture shock, is because they may feel let down by their friends’ and familys’ disinterest about their intercultural experiences. What annoys Shannon the most when she visits home, are the statements and jokes about her being more of a Canadian than a Kiwi. She has swapped words such as rubbish for garbage, and motorway for highway, but this is something that she has adapted from the culture in Canada to make it easier for her friends in Canada to understand her. Shannon feels that her friends and family don’t know the extent of what she has been through, and torn between cultures. Ting-Toomey and Chung (2012) state that the intensity of the reentry culture shock depends on the distance between the two cultures. As Canada can have many similarities to New Zealand, in an individualistic sense, we can say that the intensity of her reentry culture shock was not as severe as …show more content…
Buying into a stereotype first, then sticking to it, is the attribution error premature closure. Oetzel (2009) explains that this error occurs when an individual becomes lazy in trying to make sense of someone’s behaviour, and they attribute their behaviour to a stereotype. Lustig (2006) explains the action of stereotyping as taking a category of people and making attributions and assumptions about every person that belongs to that category. Students at Shannon’s new school would ask her ridiculous questions about riding sheep to school, riding whales, and having electricity in New Zealand. All of the students had a premature judgement of a New Zealander, and they were asking Shannon questions in a joking manner to see if the attributions were true and also to make fun of her and her culture. There are many problems for these attribution errors, the main one being othering. For these people making inaccurate attributions about Shannon because she is new in the country is judgemental and wrong, and no one should be made to feel like an