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Cultural Life and New Environment

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Basically humans created their culture or social environment as an adaptation to the physical and biological environment them. A tradition will be practiced and passed down from generation to generation. The culture will be influenced by human activity. “Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic ‘taken for granted’ fashion an organizations view of its self and its environment” (Edgar Schein). In terms of humans as social beings, people in groups shaping the culture. Where we stand as far as possible we need to establish interaction and communication between communities surrounding environment. Because life in the world was spinning then we will not always be the same environment, therefore, sometimes difficult to control self in a new environment. “There is a difference between arrival and entrance. Arrival is physical and happens all at once. The train pulls in, the plan touches down, you get out of the taxi with all your luggage. You can arrive a place and never really enter it; you get there, look around, take a few pictures, make a few notes, send postcards home. When you travel like this, you think you know where you are, but, in fact you have never left home. Entering takes longer. You cross over, slowly, in bits and pieces. It is like awakening slowly, over a period of weeks. And then one morning, you open your eyes and you are finally here, really and truly here. You are just beginning to know where you are” (Jamie Zeppa). From the quote describes the culture shock and feelings of anxiety that is felt when a person living in a foreign culture. This arises as a result of difficult socialization in the new culture, which causes a person difficult to recognize what is reasonable and unreasonable. Actually a lot of positive things that can be drawn from the new culture. For ourselves personally should have

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