Reverse Culture Shock
...a week in Hong Kong and another in Japan with understanding friends, it still took us six months to adjust back to American culture. Why couldn’t we feel at home...
...a week in Hong Kong and another in Japan with understanding friends, it still took us six months to adjust back to American culture. Why couldn’t we feel at home...
...as the world’s largest mobile phone company, Vodafone. The number of pagers in use and annual sales are the world’s highest. The number of Internet users is expected to more...
...implementation of wireless technology. The number of Internet users is growing rapidly. With 18 million users in 2000, the projected growth is 80 million users by 2003.[2] (In contrast, Japan currently...
During the 1980s, color televisions were targets of envy. A work unit PC had to be “heavily guarded”—no ordinary man was allowed to access it. A cell phone was the...
...so disturbingly evident.” (p.17) Three trends that threaten to derail the North American missions movement are identified: The captivity of the movement—and much of the evangelical church—to American cultural realities,...
...parents were Christians. Ting’s maternal grandfather had been an Anglican minister. The boy was sent to St John’s University in Shanghai, which was run by the American Episcopal Church, to...
...in the West, especially in the United States, they may form a pro-American force in China’s policy-making circles. With the recent arrival of China’s new ambassador to the United States,...
...in a very different way than would, say, lawyers. The number of university graduates in this new generation of leaders is much higher than in the previous three (rising from...
...American attempts to impose human rights values. People believe these efforts reflect U.S. political interests more than genuine concern for the Chinese people. Social and political reform is inevitable. Economic...
Ever since China reopened its door under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, a great number of Mainland Chinese have come to the West for academic degrees, training, and research. Many...
...United States. He is studying English at the PLIES Intensive English School, living with an American host family and touring Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago and New York City. Wei is...
...paroxysm of anger and anti-American vitriol over the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and the U.S. State Department had urged Americans not to travel in China. I, however,...