CultureReadyNegotiating Across Cultures - Overview
This video provides an overview of negotiating across cultures and elements of building rapport, time, understanding your needs/objectives, time, and self-awareness.
Military Culture and the Transition to Civilian Life: Suicide Risk and Other Considerations
Suicide among active duty military members and veterans has increased in the wake of the two international conflicts, surpassing those of the general population for the first time since Vietnam. Recent research has identified the period of separation from the military as a period of elevated risk, regardless of deployment history.
Culture Shock in the United States
"What was your biggest culture shock going to the United States?" is a question that was posed via the website, Quora. The question is a valuable one to help us reflect on the sometimes invisible norms that make us who we are. Some excerpts are included below to show some of the varying perspectives by country.
What is Culture Shock?
The first time I lived abroad, in Argentina, I wrote an excited letter to an old friend. “I am living in a place that is very similar to the States in most ways,” I told him, “and yet everything in daily life takes place in Spanish. More amazing altogether: while there are tons of things I don’t understand, I am able to function very well.”
Understanding Reverse Culture Shock
Reverse culture shock is a common reaction to returning home from time abroad. It is an emotional and psychological stage of re-adjustment, similar to your initial adjustment to living abroad. Symptoms can range from feeling like no one understands you or how you’ve changed to feeling panicked that you will lose part of your identity if you don’t have an outlet to pursue new interests that were sparked abroad. Your reactions to re-entry may vary, but common signs are:
The Journal of Culture, Language and International Security - Dec 2014
The title of this issue is Global Solutions. The articles featured inside in one way or another consider solutions to ongoing global problems or provide knowledge and/or skills to those organizations and their personnel as they go about supporting missions and operations to help resolve conflict and other crises and disasters.
Can Video Games Help to Prevent Culture Shock in War?
Alelo is looking at ways to use gaming technologies to prepare military members for other cultures and actually prevent culture shock.