Culture shock might be called an occupational disease of people who have been suddenly transplanted abroad. Like most ailments, it has its own    1    and cure.
    Culture shock is    2    by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse. Those signs or cues include the thousand and one    3    in which we orient ourselves to the    4    of daily life: when to shake hands and what to say when we meet people, when and how to give tips, how to    5    purchases, when to accept and when to refuse invitations, when to take statement seriously and when not. These cues,    6    may be words, gestures, facial    7    customs, or norms, are    8    by all of us in the course of growing up and are as much a    9    of our culture as the language we speak or the beliefs we accept. All of us    10    for our peace of mind and our efficiency on hundreds of these cues,    11    of which we do not carry on the    12    of conscious awareness.
    Now when an individual    13    a strange culture, all or most of these familiar cues are removed. He or she is like a fish out of water. No matter how broad-minded or    14    of goodwill you may be, a series of props have been    15    under you, followed by a feeling of frustration and    16    . People react to the frustration in much the    17    way. First they reject the environment which causes the    18    . "The ways of the host country are bad because they make us feel bad." When foreigners in a strange land get together to    19    about the host country and its people, you can be sure they are    20    from culture shock.