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[quote=DODGER,376915]Coping strategy for culture shock: Survival techniques
How can we cope with culture shock? Having some information about culture shock is a first important step. Attempting to distance ourselves from ethnocentric perspectives will help. Then, to successfully cope, make sure your attitudes mirror those suggested in green and red in the top half of the diagram. As you work through cultural socialization, follow the tips below on surviving situations where you are unfamiliar with verbal and non-verbal codes.

Symptoms of culture shock:
    * Unwarranted criticism of the culture and people
    * Heightened irritability
    * Constant complaints about the climate
    * Continual offering of excuses for staying indoors
    * Utopian ideas concerning one's previous culture
    * Continuous concern about the purity of water and food
    * Fear of touching local people
    * Refusal to learn the language
    * Preoccupation about being robbed or cheated
    * Pressing desire to talk with people who "really make sense."
    * Preoccupation with returning home

Stages most people go through in adjusting to a new culture
   1. Fun: The excitement and adventure of experiencing new people, things, and opportunities.
   2. Flight: Disorientation brings the urge to avoid everything and everyone that is different.
   3. Fight: The temptation to judge people and things that are different as bad or foolish.
   4. Fit: Creative interaction with the new culture that includes a willingness to understand and embrace.

Coping tips:
Speak the foreign language as often as possible.
This will not only help you to improve your confidence and communication skills, it will also help you to orient yourself to a new cultural environment; a language consists of more than grammar and vocabulary.
Ask for help.
    Create a wide support network as quickly as you can in your target culture. This can include expatriates like yourself as well as people of the local culture. Western Universities should also have counselors for this purpose: make use of this resource.
Focus on what you can control.
    When we are suffering from culture shock, we usually feel out of control. So, don't spend energy on things you cannot change. 
Don't invest major energy in minor problems.
    We make "mountains out of molehills" even more quickly in cross-cultural situations than we do in our own culture. 
Tackle major stressors head on.
    Don't avoid things. 
Maintain regular living patterns.
    Eat and sleep at regular intervals.
Keep up your interests.
If you have certain hobbies or are involved in sports at home, try to do the same abroad. This is a great way to make friends.
Write it down.
    Record your thoughts and frustrations in a journal. This will give you a healthy outlet for expressing your feelings.
Explore.
Set time aside each day to do something special and make sure you do it.
Nest.
Find a place you feel comfortable and spend time there when you need to recharge your batteries.
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