Why culture shock awareness is so important?

Have you ever wanted to study abroad? Or Have you ever met an international student?

The fact of being far away from your home country, brings homesickness, and more especially, the idea of culture shock.

In this case, what is culture shock? It's the phenomenon of living in a different culture than your native, and experiencing difficulties in adjusting in the new environment.

It can even manifest in short-trips abroad, when you find the local culture strange and cannot adapt.

However, culture shock is more present when people live far away from their native countries for an extended period of time, where it's crucial to socialize with locals and develop a new routine different than the old one.

The idea of being far away from its own culture generates a strange feeling of displacement, and most of the times might cause a lot of fear in the individual.

So, for this process to be more comfortable, society must be aware of this issue and create a safe environment for possible culture shock. That could happen by expanding diversity in schools and workplaces, welcoming different cultures and nationalities, and the dynamics among foreigners and locals be more gentle.

The awareness is important for the culture shock process to be shorter and not painful for the individual that might experience it.