Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: CustomFlix
• DVD Release Date: July 13, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000DIMFFC
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #33,971 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

This video is about cross-cultural adaptation and culture shock.

Foreign students share their perceptions of their experiences in the U.S. as each of them (plus one specialist in cross-cultural relations and a few American Students) is interviewed about living and studying in a new culture.

The focus is on the arrival and immediate postarrival period and the culture shock which, for most of the interviewees, follows on its heels. It becomes clear that central to the problems encountered are major differences in values and behaviors between the foreign students and the Americans they meet. The documentary covers a range of basic characteristics of American culture:

openness/directness, privacy, attitudes toward time, friendship

patterns, informality, and competitiveness.

Culture Shock is an excellent resource for any program wishing to help its participants better understand the cross-cultural adjustment process and the experience of being a foreigner in the United States.

Useful in foreign student, refugee, and teaching assistant

orientation programs; briefings for Americans dealing with foreign students; and orientation for exchange students.

Copyright 2005

This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for Orientation, August 23, 2007

By	D. Johnston - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the perfect video for orientation for an international program. We used it for Faculty, Staff, Peer Advisors and the Students themselves. It helps everyone understand what the students experience and is the perfect length. Anything over 30 minutes would have lost our audience.

1.0 out of 5 stars Another Defective DVD, September 3, 2009

By	A. Durning - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This would be a wonderful item- if only it played. I also recieved two of these DVD's and neither would play- format issues. I really want a working copy of this video if anyone has one!

1.0 out of 5 stars Two damaged DVDs!, March 20, 2009

By	Donna Van Handle "Donna" (South Hadley, MA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Unfortunately, I ordered this DVD from Amazon TWICE. I returned the first DVD because it was defective (it skipped a lot). I had the IT folks at my college take a look at it and they said it was defective. Then I ordered another one from Amazon and the same thing happened. I played it on multiple DVD players. I had to return yet another copy of the DVD to Amazon!

I believe the stock is perhaps defective. I really want to see this DVD and use it in an orientation program for international students, so I hope the stock is replaced soon.