Culture Confusion

Hottola, Petri

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2004.01.003

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“…We did not distinguish between different periods of cross-cultural adaptation when analyzing the experience of foreign teachers. As Hottola (2004) mentioned, the process of cross-cultural adaptation occurs in different stages, during which visitors show various reactions. The experience shared by the participants in our study might be integrated with feelings from different adaptation periods.…”

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Challenges, Coping and Resources: A Thematic Analysis of Foreign Teachers’ Experience of Cultural Adaptation in China

Yi¹,

Wu²,

Xiang³

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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The aim of this study was to explore foreign teachers' experience of cultural and life adaptation in China, including the difficulties, emotional stress, and challenges they confronted, as well as the useful coping strategies and resources that facilitated their cultural adaptation. Ten foreign professors who taught in China were recruited from three Chinese universities. Semi-structured interviews on the participants' experience of cross-cultural adaptation in China were conducted. Thematic analysis of the transcribed dialogs was performed, and five core themes emerged: multiple challenges, mixed negative emotions, active coping and insulation, rich supportive resources, and personal traits. In the cross-cultural adaptation process in China, the main challenges for foreign teachers were language barriers; a lack of supportive relationships; and conflicts in perceptions related to teaching, privacy, and boundaries. Useful coping strategies included seeking interpersonal interactions that provided emotional and instrumental support, developing localized teaching models, and maintaining connections with the culture of origin. Under circumstances with convenient living facilities and supportive interpersonal relationships, these strategies promoted the adaptation of foreign teachers with functional personality traits. The potential correlations among these different themes and the influence of their interactions on foreign teachers' adaptation experience were also discussed. The themes that emerged in our study can help clinicians and university administrators develop therapy methods and support systems for foreign teachers who work in Chinese universities.

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Challenges, Coping and Resources: A Thematic Analysis of Foreign Teachers’ Experience of Cultural Adaptation in China

Yi¹,

Wu²,

Xiang³

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…Adventure travel can challenge values and beliefs, enrich one's life by exposure to different cultures (Reisinger, 2013), and be a form of self-conquest (Cousineau, 1998). Hottola (2004) noted, "It is not uncommon that even during a short stay in a foreign country, some patterns of expectations and values do change. .…”

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“…It was proposed that high cultural novelty would be associated with liminality or new context. The perception of being in a new and novel world may provide a greater chance to gain new information, reconsider earlier knowledge, and provide an environment open to creativity and insight (Hottola, 2004). Most travelers, whether traveling solo or with others, spend the majority of their time with other travelers they meet on the road.…”

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Travel and Insight on the Limen: A Content Analysis of Adventure Travel Narratives

Goodnow¹,

Bordoloi²

2017

Tourism Review International

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with hopes of gaining insight into their lives and selves. Reisinger (2013) suggested that: those who undertake travel engage in an actual physical movement (through time and space) as well as inner psychological development.. .. As a result, undertaking an actual trip (physical journey) is often seen as an expression of an inner psychological journey. (p. 27) Those travelers return home wiser and better able to face the challenges of life (Reisinger, 2013).

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“…I wasn't shocked because I knew that it was going to be bad' (Monty, interview, 30 August 2010). The term 'culture shock' has come to be used as a common language signifier of everyday difficulties tourists meet while travelling in a foreign country (Chen et al, 2011;Furnham, 1984;Hottola, 2004). There is a wide range of resources on the Internet, as well as in the print media (for example, the Culture Shock!…”

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“…Some tourists prepare beforehand for the shock expected when travelling. It is argued that while culture shock may be part of tourism, it is incorrectly and loosely used to denote generic linguistic misunderstandings in intercultural situations such as 'language shock' or 'environmental/ecological shock' (Hottola, 2004). series) with numerous cultural instructions and travel guidelines for international tourists (Hottola, 2004).…”

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Affective Tourism

Buda¹

2015

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This book brings together, explores and expands socio-spatial affect, emotion and psychoanalytic drives in tourism for the first time. Affect is to be found in visceral intensities and resonances that circulate around and shape encounters between and amongst tourists, local tourism representatives and places. When affect manifests, it can shape-shift into emotions such as fun, joy, fear, anger and the like. When it remains a visceral force of latent bodily responses, affect overlaps with drives, as expounded in psychoanalysis. The aim of the title, therefore, is to explore how and in what ways affects, emotions and drives are felt, sensed and performed in tourism encounters in places of socio-political turmoil such as Jordan and Palestine/ Israel, with a detour to Iraq.Affective Tourism is highly innovative as it offers a new way of theorising tourism encounters, bringing together, critically examining and expanding three areas of scholarship: affective and emotional geographies, psychoanalytic geographies and dark tourism. It has relevance for tourism industries in places in the proximity of ongoing conflicts as it provides in-depth analyses of the interconnections between tourism, danger and conflict. Such understandings can lead to more socio-culturally and politically sustainable approaches to planning, development and management of tourism.This groundbreaking book will be valuable reading for students and researchers from a number of fields such as tourism studies, geography, anthropology, sociology and Middle Eastern studies.The aim of this series is to explore and communicate the intersections and relationships between leisure, tourism and human mobility within the social sciences.It will incorporate both traditional and new perspectives on leisure and tourism from contemporary geography, e.g., notions of identity, representation and culture, while also providing for perspectives from cognate areas such as anthropology, cultural studies, gastronomy and food studies, marketing, policy studies and political economy, regional and urban planning, and sociology, within the development of an integrated field of leisure and tourism studies.Also, increasingly, tourism and leisure are regarded as steps in a continuum of human mobility. Inclusion of mobility in the series offers the prospect to examine the relationship between tourism and migration, the sojourner, educational travel, and second home and retirement travel phenomena.The series comprises two strands:

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Culture Confusion

Cited by 163 publications

References 16 publications

Challenges, Coping and Resources: A Thematic Analysis of Foreign Teachers’ Experience of Cultural Adaptation in China

Challenges, Coping and Resources: A Thematic Analysis of Foreign Teachers’ Experience of Cultural Adaptation in China

Travel and Insight on the Limen: A Content Analysis of Adventure Travel Narratives

Affective Tourism

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