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Hi Alexander

Wow thank you’re for the referral. I look forward to reading this novel. Severe culture shock or as you said , acculturative stress is a passionate area of reading for me. It’s a fascinating area that I think needs much more research. My first formal experience with this topic was after living and studying in Japan and experiencing so much cultural and identity stress which started the unsettling ongoing journey of questioning my culture, everything I believe, who I am, how I fit into the world and community, what my values are etc. This seems to be an ongoing process which I now really enjoy but have realised I can sadly not share my insights on this topic with very many others.

My first formal introduction to ” culture shock” was in University in Canada, after living in Japan, in a book or article called ” The Seven Stages of Culture Shock”. I wish I had understood some of this information prior to my stay in Japan the first time. It was invaluable the second time, when I stayed much longer in Japan and understood what was happening to some degree. I have searched repeatedly for this article /book many times but not been able to find it again.
Thank you again for the recommendation!

Hi Jeff
Thank you for the recommendation. This sounds like a fascinating read. I am married to someone from a different culture and language, and we have lived, worked and travelled in a series of countries other than our own. These kind of books about intercultural communication, and the intricacies of “culture clash” and miscommunication are a passion of mine. I have noticed that even if people speak the same language there can be enormous miscommunication, and I have had amazing complex and interesting “conversations” and communication experiences with people where we speak not one word of each others language, for example in Tibet. So much of communication is about peoples willingness and intentions it seems. I look forward to reading this book. Thanks again.

Yes, Ingrid generally the Urdu websites have a Latin script but basically this website has three options (Urdu, English and Hindi) and that’s why it is on of the most authentic websites for Urdu literature especially in Pakistan.

This book looks at the social, political, and pedagogical roles of community language teaching in migrant communities. It is based on an ethnographic study of the value of Mandarin-Chinese community schooling in the United Kingdom as an intercultural space for individuals involved. The book takes a ‘bricolage’ approach to understanding the interrelationship between ‘language,’ ‘culture,’ and ‘identity,’ bringing together a variety of theoretical approaches.

As a language teacher, I highly recommend everyone to read this book.

Thank you, Alexander! Sounds amazing and I’ll make sure to add this to my summer reading list 😊

Thanks, Ingrid! An important read for every Australian and everyone interested in language policy!

Thanks, Enkhzaya! An interesting read but I reject the belief that migrants are “deeply emotional and prone to depression” … as with all groups, there is a great variety of experience but migration per es is not a clinical condition 🙃

The novel, which is to an extent autobiographical, tells the story of a French-speaking Belgian girl, who was born to diplomat parents in Japan and spent her early childhood there. Even though she later returned to Belgium with her family, she had become proficient in Japanese and considered herself Japanese. Upon graduating from university, she obtains an office job in Tokyo and returns to Japan, looking forward to reconnecting with what she considers her homeland. Of course, her perfect Japanese aside, Amélie’s cultural norms are entirely European. Her idea of herself as Japanese represented Identity Foreclosure – a naïve choice of identity which one makes without having explored the options.

She experiences severe culture shock (or, more properly, acculturative stress – I found that theoretical framework more useful for analysing this case), facing constant scolding from her bosses for being unable to navigate the strongly hierarchical and collectivist Japanese culture. She enters identity moratorium, struggling to find her real identity. Amélie still wants to be Japanese, but can no longer avoid the realisation that she is Western. Eventually, she acquires a bicultural identity. Her stoicism in face of hostility at work proves both to her and her superior, Fubuki, that she is in fact Japanese, at least to an extent. Yet she no longer denies her Westernness. She has finally entered the stage of Identity Achievement – but acquiring two identities instead of one.

This is a great novel, and highly relevant for the study of identity, culture and acculturation. I truly enjoyed reading it.

Link of the article:
https://www.linguisticsnetwork.com/an-introduction-to-language-families/

While other art forms have gone from strength to strength since those times, the developing relationship with literacy in vernacular languages came to an abrupt end in most communities with the abandonment of bilingual education. The article Death by a Thousand Cuts: Indigenous Language Bilingual Education Programmes in the Northern Territory of Australia, 1972–1998, by Christine Nicholls, describes the significance of bilingual education in those communities, in contrast to the educational ramifications of monolingual schooling. It is saddening, but perhaps necessary, to learn about the processes by which this policy change came about.

Also, as a language teacher, I found this book excellent because it has good examples that I can use with my students to explain why we can´t learn grammar and vocabulary without real context. How important it is to understand the culture when we are learning a new language.

Therefore, in my opinion, being lockdown was an excellent excuse to connect to myself, read interesting books and watch documentaries on Netflix and understand more about language and culture.

Thanks

This book is an extraordinary resource to learn about these three exceptional women and get insight into who they were based not only on primary European records but also on Indian accounts from the colonial era, which together, in Jager’s words, “provide context and dept [and] are best understood in relation to each other”.

This book allows readers to understand who these female intermediaries were by offering detailed descriptions of their socio-cultural background, the roles they played as intermediaries between natives and first Europeans in the context of their societies and cultures, and the myths that have been built around them throughout time.

The multidisciplinary research consulted and gathered by the author serves to gain an insightful understanding of what the lives of these women were truly like and differentiate that from the stories about them that have been created throughout the years to serve specific political and social ends.

This great book attempts to give a voice to these admirable women whose first-hand impressions we were not able to access.