Chinese as silence. Women as silence. Culture Shock Culture Shock is a popular term for the disorientation, confusion, and emotional reactions that arise when people live in another culture. It focuses on the experience of expatriates and elites, rather than the more rigorous cultural adjustments that refugees, immigrants, and subjugated peoples face. Weaver objects to Oberg's implication that culture shock is a disorder or a disease.
Different people have different psychological reactions to that stress.
As a culture we are all basically the same. As a person, you are just like me. My way is the only way. My way is the best way . Cross-cultural communication challenges our ethnocentric attitudes over and over again.