Week 4:3 Anxiety and Withdrawal

In Chapter 12 with the discussion of Intercultural Communication, the barrier created by anxiety and withdrawal is something I found interesting. Since we are creatures of habit and we develop behavior through learning accepted behaviors of our culture. When we are exposed to other cultures we can be victims of anxiety which creates barrier to how much we experience of another culture. If we are too fearful or have too much tension to allow extended social interaction in another culture, we may actually experience illness that is related to "culture shock." I know someone who recently visited Paris and Europe, after the initial excitement of new experiences, she started to deeply miss America and common luxuries we have in the states. Before you know it, she was extremely ill and ended up spending a couple of days in bed trying to regroup. The new culture experience was too much for her to completely grasp when all of our native culture was inaccessible for sometime.