Expatriate versus Repatriate

Expatriates versus Repatriates
The cultural adjustment

Introduction
The culture shock that expatriates and repatriates experience is different in some ways, but weigh about equally the same. First of all, the explanation of culture shock itself is a phenomenon that all expatriates experience when they travel abroad for any kind of purposes they have (Internations.org, 2013). The phenomenon in which we can also describe as when the people around you have different style of living, food, traditions, culture, views, beliefs, and environment, therefore expatriates would feel interacting with people around is not as comfortable as with the people where the expatriates from, also might feel the way of living in the new country is not as what they used to live like in their home country. Expatriate, person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person 's upbringing or legal residence, have always been having trouble facing culture shock, yet will most likely adapt to the new environment, and the same goes to repatriates. Repatriates simply means expatriates who return back to their original place, and mostly repatriates will again experience another culture shock of adapting to a new environment from which they were once adapted to the environment at the place they were at before coming back to the home country.

Expatriates Culture Shock
In everywhere around the world, every expatriate will experience culture shock and will also manage to get through. There is no specific theory explaining how expatriates avoid experiencing culture and every expatriate will always experience culture shock. Expatriates are not only having a single strike of culture shock, whereas there are stages of culture shock. It takes time for expatriates to get adjusted with the cultural differences and issues stages. Different stages have some different

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