Many people ride through culture shock with some ease, only now and again experiencing the more serious reactions. But many others don't. This knowledge should give you a better understanding of what is happening to you and buttress your resolve to work at hastening your recovery. Just as culture shock can develop from initial euphoria with the host culture to irritability and hostility toward it, success in dealing with it will lead to gradual adjustment and eventual adaptation or even biculturalism. Initial Euphoria .
Most people begin with great expectations and a positive mind-set.
If anything, they come with expectations which are too high and attitudes that are too positive toward the host country and toward their own prospective experiences in it. At this point, anything new is intriguing and exciting. But, for the most part, it is the similarities that stand out. The recent arrivee is usually impressed with how people everywhere are really very much alike. This period of euphoria may last from a few days to a month or so, but some degree of letdown is inevitable.