Culture Shock Experienced by Balinese Working at Overseas Cruiseship and How Literary Works can Help

Suprastayasa, I Gusti Ngurah Agung (0017) Culture Shock Experienced by Balinese Working at Overseas Cruiseship and How Literary Works can Help. Taxtual Mobilities: Diaspora, Migration, Transnationalism and Multiculturalism, - (-). p. 39. ISSN - (Unpublished)

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Abstract

When a person works abroad and comes into contact with new situation, environment and people with different cultural background, he oftentimes has problems in facing different aspects of life. This situation is called culture shock. As there is a growing number of young Balinese people who work in cruiseship overseas, it is vitally important to understand the problems related to culture differences that they face. This article, therefore, aims to analyse the culture schock experienced by Balinese workers in the cruiseship. In-depth interview was conducted to ten Balinese workers who have worked for various period of time in the cruiseship overseas. The interview was focused on the culture shock they experienced during the initial stage of their career. The result shows that all the subjects under study experienced culture schock during their initial stage working in the cruiseship in different degrees. In addition, it is found out that they did not have adequate preparations or orientation on the matter neither in their study nor in the orientation program that they follow prior to their departure. In order to address this issue, the inclusion of and emphasis on cross culture learning into the training and orientation program is proposed.

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