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Culture shock: strategies to cope with the expat's spleen

Updated by bertrand on 25 Oct 2011 16:22

There are spleens that can be nurturing. Culture shock is one of them. Every expatriates experience it. None does it the same way. Some do not pay the least attention. Others fall deep in a period of isolation and detestation. At the end of the day, when mourning is over and one starts to perceive local manners, sounds and odours differently, there is a feeling of undeniable enrichment and peace showing the integration process is well underway.

Culture shock

Updated on 10 Jan 2012

If you have seen "All That Jazz", the Bob Foss musicals, you might remember this  humorist who presented on a video tape typical human attitudes in front of death: surprise, denial, anger, …escape, acceptation. What the humorist described is actually a very spontaneous attitude we all experience, to some extent, when dealing with change.