Cross cultural understanding: a handbook to understand others’ cultures

participate fully and comfortably in the host culture. 
Mastery does not mean total conversion. People often 
keep many traits from their earlier culture, such as accents 
and languages. It is often referred to as the biculturalism 
stage.
D.
 
Coping Shock Culture 
Culture shock can be prevented by striving to become 
more culturally relativistic and flexible in thinking and 
behavior, by developing a real enthusiasm for learning about 
the host culture and by forming real intercultural 
relationships. Successful cross-cultural communications is a 
fairly straightforward proposition. With the correct attitude, 
a few good cultural informants, a few cross-cultural 
communications concepts and some time spent as a