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“Culture Shock Experienced by Foreigners in Makassar City”
This research discussed about Culture Shock Experienced by Foreigners in Makassar
City, which aimed to find out the process of culture shock experienced by Foreigners in
Makassar city. This research used qualitative method and focused on Collen Ward’s theory.
The researcher used interview sheet as instrument of the research to four respondents who
are have been stay in Makassar city. The researcher found that there are four processes of
culture shock experienced by foreigners. Such as honeymoon phase is first stage because of
hospitality, scenery and custom of the host country. The second is crisis stage is the crisis
phase because of cross culture differences in how people communicate. The third is
recovery phases, where they began to accept, to resolve and to adjust their cultural
differences. Finally is adjustment phase where they were enjoyed and accepted the cultural
differences in new environment. The implication of this of this research is to give
understanding about culture shock.
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