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recognize students in this stage because they will want to talk

about the differences they have noticed and share stories about

their experiences. Listening to students’ concerns and

empathizing with their attempts to understand can help them
adapt.

4. The Adaptation Stage.

Eventually, most individuals who spend a considerable length of

time in a new culture will reach the fourth stage, that of acceptance
and adaptation. They are no longer negatively affected by

differences in culture and can participate in social interactions

without difficulty. Students who have reached this stage can assist

advisors who are working with students who are still experiencing

culture shock by acting as ambassadors or peer counsellors.(Yale,

2017)
D. Coping of Culture Shock

Culture shock can be prevented by striving to become more culturally

relativistic and flexible in thinking and behaviour, by developing a real
enthusiasm for learning about the host culture, and by forming real

intercultural relationships.(Meati.za, 2019) Successful cross-cultural
communication is a fairly straightforward proposition. With the correct

attitude, a few good cultural informants, and a few cross-cultural
communications concepts and some time spent as a participant-observer, a

person will quite naturally develop a repertoire of intercultural interaction
skills. And, when a person begins to move further along the continuum of

cross-cultural understanding and interaction, they will more quickly put
down ego-identity roots in the new host culture and feel more at ease with

themselves and their surroundings. They will become happier and more

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