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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 4 / 2009  
         
  Article:   CULTURE SHOCK IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION.

Authors:  DELIA FLANJA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  People live in communities based on the things they have in common, and the means of sharing those things are through communication acts. In order to form a community or a society, it is impetuously necessary to have common goals, beliefs, aspirations, knowledge, a common understanding. Not too many of the people that go abroad take into consideration the way in which cultural differences may affect their well being. “Culture shock” is the state of discomfort experienced by the intercultural traveler, in a more or less profound way, once he or she is placed in an unfamiliar environment. This is the aspect that I will try to clarify in may paper, more precisely the importance of being aware of, and learning how to cope with culture shock.

Keywords: culture, interculturalism, culture shock, differences, training
  
         
     
         
         
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