Foreign culture: 1000/printpage.asp? Boardid = 7 & ID = 22212 How will young international students (especially those who stay abroad alone and do not live with their parents and relatives) be affected by the impact of foreign culture? How should they face foreign cultures? This kind of problem seems to be more worthy of our attention than their acclimatization or homesickness, because the latter is only a short-term difficulty, while the former brings them lifelong events. Generally speaking, after a person has been immersed in the complex environment of a foreign culture, the degree and speed of assimilation are inversely proportional to age. The younger you are, the less you know and experience the motherland's culture, so the greater the influence of foreign culture may be. Small international students are vulnerable to a series of "cultural shocks" after arriving in a foreign country for the first time. At this time, if there is no timely help from parents, relatives and friends, it will often arouse depression and anxiety in young minds, so that after a period of hesitation and exploration, it may gradually tend to identify with foreign cultures. International students generally do not have this tendency. Most of them have the ability to analyze and evaluate foreign cultures, and have persistent feelings for some excellent traditions in their own culture, so they will not be easily assimilated by the host culture. Most of the first and second generation immigrants retain a strong sense of motherland or hometown. From the third generation to the fourth generation, this mood is getting weaker and weaker, which is the fundamental reason. It is a blessing or a curse for foreign students who are deeply influenced by foreign cultures and eventually assimilated completely. It depends on the angle of observation, so it is not convenient to generalize. Some people may not care about turning their children into "Americans" or "foreigners" and think that it is promising for children to stay abroad and get married as soon as possible when they grow up. However, some people think that it is best for children to keep the self of China culture, because this self-awareness helps children find the right direction in the world. From the perspective of cultural diversity, this idea has some advantages. Since they are the blood of China people, if they can continue to enjoy the influence of China culture in a foreign country, their cultural life will naturally be more diverse and rich. Many overseas Chinese are very keen on promoting Chinese school education in their places of residence. The highest goal is to let their children receive foreign education without completely forgetting their cultural roots. The shortcut to maintain this awareness of cultural roots is to learn the language of the motherland. Most foreign students lack the ability to use Chinese. If they are not taught by their parents and relatives for a long time and do not actively participate in Chinese schools or other activities related to the culture of the motherland, they will eventually weaken or lose their confidence and interest in their own language and culture. The culture of the motherland has a long history and rich content. If some international students cut off the feeding of this cultural torrent prematurely, it will not only hurt their parents' feelings, but also cause incalculable personal losses. When you come to a new place, the cultural shock is what impresses you the most. This thing may have never happened to you in the original cultural background, but this time it caught you at once and aimed at your heart like an electric shock. This blow even caused you great discomfort. In fact, this is a very academic vocabulary. The original meaning refers to the cultural inadaptability caused by a person moving from his/her inherent cultural environment to a new cultural environment. After World War II, with the large-scale migration of population, a large number of immigrants appeared. They moved from one country to a new country, from a cultural background to a new cultural background, and many cross-cultural social and psychological problems were waiting for them, so the word cultural shock came into being. Cultural shock can be multifaceted, from climate, diet, language, clothing to behavior, population density, political and economic environment and so on; There are both physiological factors and psychological factors. In a brand-new cultural environment, cultural shock makes the affected people at a loss, and even the whole psychological balance and value judgment standard are completely lost. There are many stages of cultural shock: at first, when you first arrive in a new environment, everything is fresh and full of freshness. At this time, the spirit is cheerful, and this is your honeymoon with the new environment. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Just before you fully enjoyed the wedding, your honeymoon was broken by many trivial things in life: at first, it was probably a language barrier. Even if you have a good language training, for example, when you were at school, the report card of English class has always been your pride, but this time you are surrounded by a mouth full of cockney accent, and you may not understand many places; Or you like this cockney accent very much, or there will be endless problems waiting for you: for example, you don't know how to open a bank account and can't use an ATM; When you go to a restaurant, you don't know how to order, the food you ordered is not suitable, and you don't know how much to tip when you check out. What worries you most is that you don't know where the toilet is when you are in a hurry. When you finally find the toilet, you just can't recognize the "male" and "female" in the local dialect ... and so on, which makes you miss your hometown and beautify your distant hometown into Mr. Tao Yuanming's peach blossom garden. You even begin to wonder why you "left your hometown and wandered around the world" in the "revolution". Later, after a long period of shock, you began to adapt to the new environment slowly. The previous shock and a lot of novelty evolved into "familiarity" and eventually became "ignorance". You may finally come out of a round of cultural shock. You haven't escaped yet, but don't let your guard down. There may be a new round of impact coming at you ahead ... we don't do live coverage of the Gulf War. Don't think that culture shock is a negative influence. In fact, the existence of cultural shock shows that people live in their own way on this planet, and our planet has become rich and colorful. What we are worried about is that in such a global village with developed communication, transportation and media, the influence of the world on people is getting smaller and smaller. With a credit card in your wallet and a global mobile phone in your pocket, you can travel around the world. You can see CNN announcers explaining Davos, Saddam, avian flu and mad cow disease in English everywhere ... It's actually just one of many languages and one of many news perspectives. Needless to say, after rounds of cultural shocks, your perspective should be richer, you should know more about different cultural backgrounds and different lifestyles, and you should have a deeper understanding that our planet is indeed a colorful and multicultural planet. In order to maintain cultural diversity, don't be afraid of cultural shock, let the cultural shock come more violently! There is only a little hope left: gentlemen in suits and dresses and ladies in dresses can stand in front of men's and women's toilets all over the world, so don't encounter a new round of cultural shock at the critical moment of your internal urgency. Western food culture has quietly influenced the baking industry in Chinese mainland/Papers/Data /2006/0603/ Articles _ Western culture in 2779.html has influenced the aesthetics of Asian women. With the influence of western culture on Asia, the number of women undergoing breast augmentation surgery in Shenzhen has increased fivefold in five years. Many women yearn for beauty and even ignore the danger of postoperative sequelae. According to experts in the plastic surgery industry, normal breast augmentation surgery will leave 20% of people with sequelae. Although doctors warned women who want to have surgery before and after the operation, most people are willing to take risks. The pursuit of beauty and men's vision are also the reasons why most women enter the operating room. Due to the influence of western culture, flat-chested Asian women began to pursue plump curves, but blind pursuit may also cause lifelong regret. Therefore, some experts suggest that women who love beauty should pursue a healthy and perfect figure from their own perspective.