Learning to Live in a Different Culture

A Handbook

• Author(s): Leo Hitchcock,
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Pages: 318
• ISBN_10: 1788486579
  ISBN_13: 9781788486576
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Reference / Personal & Practical Guides ,

Description:... Going to a foreign country and wondering how you will fit in or adapt to living there? This book will help you. Are you a recent arrival into a different cultural system and are facing difficulties? This book will help you. Want to know how (and why) to do things the way your friends and colleagues of a different culture do? This book will help you. Wondering why other cultures act so differently to yours? This book will tell you. Based on the actual experiences of long-term exchange student sojourners who have been in these situations, this book tells you how they overcame their difficulties. Tested against widely accepted theories and models, the author presents techniques – what to do and what not to do – on how the sojourners featured in this book may have adapted more easily and quickly, and offers his own experiential Cross-cultural Adaptation Process Model (eCAPM) as a tool to use on one’s cultural adaptation journey.