An Exploratory Study Of The Reverse Culture Adaptation Situations Of The Returned Students From Britain

With the growing penetration of globalization, countries tend to exchange with each other much more than ever before. Researchers at home and abroad have conducted various researches on"cultural shock"experiences which people may encounter when he or she left his or her motherland culture for somewhere new. As a result, most people will get themselves ready for the cross-culture journey to face the potential"culture shock".However, researches about the"reverse cultural shock"are not often seen in the academic fields."Reverse cultural shock"was firstly put forward by Scheuts in 1994, when the returned veteran met with difficulties in their once familiar home culture."Reverse cultural shock"refers to the fact that people who have left their motherland involving in another culture for a long time may misunderstand, misinterpret, alien his or her home culture when coming back home, and he or she would have to do cultural re-adaptation.Scholar Clyde N. Austin pointed out that no one wants to admit that he or she is having difficulties reading home culture. But reality is that most people returned faces stress in reentry process, and in some cases their need of counseling is severe.At present,"Hai Gui"in China has been an expanding group. In face of"reverse cultural shock", could they adapt themselves successfully? This study employs the returned college students from Britain as a focused group in order to indicate the whole picture of all the returnees. The research will be based on on-line survey by the returned college students from Britain, and under the theoretical framework of accultraration model of John Berry and two dimensions of adaptation of Collean Ward. The author hopes that the thesis could help the returned college students to better overcome the difficulties in cultural reentry and call on the society to pay attention to the issue.