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This book looks at the movements of immigrants and refugees and the challenges they face as they cross cultural boundaries and strive to build a new life in an unfamiliar place. It focuses on the psychological dynamic underpinning of their adaptation process, how their internal conditions change over time, the role of their ethnic and personal backgrounds, and of the conditions of the host environment affecting the process. Addressing these and related issues, the author presents a comprehensive theory, or a "big picture,"of the cross-cultural adaptation phenomenon.
Environment
Environment
I am a part of all that I have met.
Strangers' communication and adaptation in a new cultural environment cannot be fully understood without taking into account the conditions of the environment. To the extent that strangers participate in the social (interpersonal and mass) communication processes of the host environment, they are influenced by that environment. Different conditions of the environment evoke different responses in strangers by serving as the cultural, social, and political forces in accordance to which they must strive to increase their chances for meeting personal and social goals (Murray & Sondhi, 1987). Of particular relevance to the present discussion are those environmental conditions that affect (and are affected by) both the quantity and the quality of strangers' ...
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