1、A Brief Study of Culture shock from some episodes of Tom and Jerry1. Introduction:The aim of this thesis is analyze the emergence, influence and some countermeasures of culture shock which is based on some episodes of Tom and Jerry. Culture shock is a common phenomenon in our daily life. It occurs w
2、hen the new culture has different rules from our won and we cant act appropriately in new environment and others do not act as we expect them. The usual word “shock” is a medical physiological response, but culture shock can produce both psychological and physiological effects. It is not a simple cu
3、ltural conflict and also a shock of simple pathology. Of course, whether the culture shock could be overcome in advance? Are there any ways to overcome it when you have a culture shock? After having a brief knowing about culture shock ,there are some question still need to be resolved. Especially in
4、 China,a multi-ethnic country with the unbalanced development of domestic region, national culture and economic. And the cultural custom also has great difference. At the same time ,with the modernization of the economic construction and the opening of the outside world ,the interaction of the forei
5、gn culture is increasingly prominent. We need understand and treat culture shock more correctly . This thesis is composed of four chapters. Firstly, with the extraction of Tom and Jerry,we make a easy understanding of the phenomenon of cultural shock. And then know its production conditions. Whats m
6、ore, recognize the impact on the individual. Finally, make a positive response for culture shock. 2. DiscussionCulture shock is an experience a person may have when one live or learn a non ethnic cultural environment. Under the cultural conflicts and unadaption people would creep up a feeling of fru
7、stration, uneasiness, uncertainty and so on. It does not refer to clinical pathological shock caused by disease. It is also the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country, a move between social environments, or
8、 simply transition to another type of life.And the word shock originally refers to the loss of important functions of the human body, such as excessive loss of blood, respiratory and circulatory failure. However, when a person who has lived in his own culture for a long time suddenly comes to anothe
9、r completely different new cultural environment, the phenomenon of cultural shock often occurs for a period of time. In the cartoon, there are a great number of phenomenon show when you expose yourself in a new cultural background, you would feel jiaolu first. Thats why when the three little cats ca
10、me to Toms house,they were frightened and frustrated.If you get unhappy, confused and upset when you are traveling or planing to abroad to study even to immigrate, you would have been experiencing the culture shock. These psychological reactions could cause some physiological dysfunction involving m
11、ass discharges of the sympathetic nervous system, impairment of the functioning of the immune system, and increases susceptibility to all diseases. In the sixty-fifth episode of Tom and Jerry,which named the mouse of Manhattan. It could be found that Jerry is a rural mouse who was come form countrys
12、ide and wanted to travel the modern city far away. However, the high building and the busy traffic system made him nervous, anxious, even fear. He had to drill into a sewer to avoid these new environment. The dark and damp around him enhanced his psychological feeling, and his heart began to thump f
13、ast the sweat had sprung out all over his body. After he hardly adjusted his state, and put on the gentlemans hat which was thought the city symbolize by himself, again there was a more trouble to face him. The beautiful lady he met on the white table was just a doll, but he seemed to fall in love w
14、ith the little thing that would say a fixed greeting, but no life at all.The psychological reactions and physiological symptoms of cultural shock are slowly debilitating, sick and even shock. So we need to find some ways to prevent cultural shock. At the same time, do some research about how to acti
15、vely deal with the impact of cultural shock if it happened on us. When we know in advance where we are going to live in for some time with a different cultural environment, the first thing is to understand the other persons culture. The library or the travel guide is a good choice. If someone should
16、 in these new context for a longer time, they should take some special lessons of the local customs and other relevant courses. Talk with those who had gone to study and live in this same cultural environment, and ask for some experiences. In short, as much as possible prepared what you feel complet
17、ely before departure. For example, in order to fly to the south, ducklings, the character of Tom and Jerry, had read a lot of newspapers and books, did a lot of test flights, and even made some simulation scenes, which were all very good preparations. But even if you are ready to do it, you may be a
18、ttacked by a culture shock. Because we grow up in our own cultural environment, if our religious beliefs, values, lifestyle in the foreign cultural environment, it is easy to feel uncomfortable. The reasons for Geographical surrounding, peoples habits, the contrast of lively and cold ,and including
19、the convenience of life, public facilities, road construction will make people have a strong sense of adaptation. As the mouse Jerry went to Manhattan,with the art of sculptures seen everywhere, everywhere would hit roadblock which unlike the country grassland plains. He came into one of the doors o
20、r houses, there was no longer the familiar Tom and duckling, but some very different man.After understand the manifestation and causes of culture shock, we can find some countermeasures.1. The lost of personal identify from national cultural environment. The first thing to realize any vital cultural
21、 transformation could produce stress and anxiety is huge, but the pressure and anxiety is a normal social adaptability. This require not only a persons self-esteem, sincerity and confidence, but also the need to keep a good self-image and rebuild the personal and cultural needs. Although we could no
22、t stop the occurrence of culture shock, but at least we could reduced the pressure. In a sense, this is regarded as a new cultural experience and psychological feelings.2. If the values produce contradictions and conflicts, we should be aware that the values of the differences is often the potential
23、, it is not easy to detect, but it is an insurmountable obstacle. Intercultural communication generally do not advocate completely or completely according to the localization of exotic native customs act. Only as far as possible understand each other in a communication, as consistent as possible in
24、terms of understanding and dealing with the problem. In order to achieve better cooperation with each other.3. If the way of life and habits are uncomfortable, it is more simple to solve. As time goes by, people would gradually adapt. And. With the globalization of economy and the increasing conveni
25、ence of transportation, people have found that in almost any corner of the world, we can also eat, dress, live in the way we like.4. Conclusion It can be seen from the analysis that the origin of culture shock is rooted in the deep original cultural pattern. When a person faces the new cultural form
26、, it would surely produce cultural shock, if he or she judge the new culture with his or her own cultural action and rules. Moreover the social environment show a huge different from each other. As a deep and wide reflection and supporting of culture, social environment add greatly to the stress. Be
27、cause culture can be learned but social environment cant be copied .Of course, culture shock is not a disease, but a process of learning. It is a complicated personal experience. Although it might produce some uncomfortable and even painful feeling, but it is not in the same way influence all the pe
28、ople, even for the same person also has a different effect on in different periods of the same environment. Therefore, for those who would be or have been in different cultures in the area of people, since the social environment is the individual cant change, you should learn the culture of self adj
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