How much woe when you go: How to calculate your culture shock
Saturday, July 12th, 2008In a piece of research released twelve years ago and seemingly immediately forgotten, Lawrence R. Zeitlin at City University of New York wrote a report on how to estimate the severity of culture shock. By using measurements of common cultural values taken from a business study of over 160.000 employees in 53 different countries, he extracted a value representing the cultural distance between two countries. This value again, can be used to measure the amount of culture shock that should be expected when cultures meet.
