Culture Shock in China cs en the author reflects on the different stages of the culture shock she experienced when moving to China. Assumption

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In connection with acculturation one often speaks of the u-curve. Also Bennett's Developmental Model (see above) describes a similar process. Ward et. al. (1998) however investigated that the adaptation phase does not have to run necessarily in such a form. But in my case, it took exactly that way.
For me, it’s very important that people who go abroad are informed about culture shock. When we went to China nobody informed or trained us. I knew the word “culture shock” but I didn’t know that it could mean. I experienced in China a lot of strong feelings I didn’t have before.
For example, I was very aggressive, which I never was before in Switzerland. These new feelings made me very insecure. From time to time I asked myself if I’m going to be crazy. I didn’t know myself anymore! If I had known at that time from these different stages of the culture shock it would have been very useful. I would have known that it is normal to go trough such phases!