definition of Culture Shock, Stereotype, Intercultural Competence, and Ethnosentrism

Culture Shock is suprised feeling of someone who come to another place/country, look at the native people behaviour or habit that is contradict or unusual for the visitor. The visitor feels very different in that kind of environtment and  nearly can not stand for it. For example, an indonesian man, from village, go abroad to study or work in USA find out that women mostly wear a very short skirt, underwear-like clothes. Actually he feels very shock or surprised because in indonesia its very rare for woman to wear such clothes.

Stereotype is a kind of oversimplified or too generalized culture of a specific people which make mostly negative point to the people and their culture. For example, someone who thinks that all arabian are rude and won’t go in arab.

Intercultural Competence is the ability of someone who can easily get along with other people even they come from different culture. This competence is cosist of skill, knowledge and attitudes towards other people from diferent culture. For example, an indonesian who cooperates with some foreign bussiness, sometimes visit partner places and behave polite such as bowing with bussiness partner from japan or korea to show respect and welcome. Different case will happen  if he meets with thai partner, he puts his hand, combine his palms in front of  his chest and greet.

Ethnosentrism is by only using someone’s own culture perspective or view, he or she judjes other culture. For example, malaysian people sometimes call indonesian with “indon” which mean “slave”.

Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_shock

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/internationalisation/ISL_Intercultural_Competencies

http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-ethnocentrism.html

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/stereotype