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Culture, multiculture and holismus

Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2009

Abstract

Migration belongs among characteristic features of a modern society. Immigrants, or refugees often arrive in a country that is totally unknown for them.

What is peculiar for them are climatic conditions, food, language, rituals, customs and habits, as well as host people´s mentality. In the course of a close contact with an unknown culture these people experience a traumatic process of adjustment to the unknown culture, which is called culture shock.

Their internal identity is looking for new dimensions.