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CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN are, he will feel extremely uncomfortable after a short period of tourist like fascination. He will experience the intensity of the culture shock and will start to reject the people and their culture. From here he may recover and go into the path of empathy or may reject the culture totally and thereby he himself will be rejected by the culture. He will have to return to his own culture as a failure. He may remain within an alien culture in a shell made out of his own culture as a foreigner. Culture Shock is precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse. These signs or cues include thousand and one ways in which we orient ourselves to the situations of daily life. These include simple things like shaking hands and what to say when we meet people, when 9
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY FOR MISSIONS M.M.NINAN and how to give tips, when to accept an invitation and when not to, how to give orders to the servants, how to make purchases, when to take a statement at its face value and when not to, when should one smile and when should one be serious etc. etc. These customs and cues - which may be words, gestures, facial expressions, customs or norms - are acquired by all of us in the course of growing up and are as such a part of our culture as the language we speak or the beliefs we hold (from Oberg, Culture Shock) Rejection takes several forms: • We may make derogatory and joking remarks about the people; • We may disassociate ourselves as far as possible from the people; • We may try to associate as much as possible with the people of our own culture, etc. ETHNOCENTRISM The act of considering our own culture as superior to those of the host culture is known as ETHNOCENTRISM. Ethnocentrism is the practice of interpreting and evaluating behavior and objects by reference to the standards of one's own culture rather than those by reference to the standards of the culture it belongs. (from Himes) On the other hand 10
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