Screw Cultural Shock By Rex Summary

Cultural shock is an extremely essential factor of anthropologist methods and this became obvious to me after reading ‘Screw Cultural Shock’ by Rex. Anthropology is all about experiencing the difference of culture and all its attributes. It is about what makes society unique and different all around the world. As Rex said, “… people who are attuned to issues of race and class recognize that there are a lot of different life worlds to be explored…” being able to share your culture and being able live among another culture within society is vital.
Although Rex is giving up on the idea of culture shock we learn that in his fieldwork in graduate school he was living in a place where the people had reproduced their lives by building their own homes, growing their foods, and he admits that it “…was staggering.” Although he isn’t the first to criticize anthropology and their theories but it is obvious that he has experienced a culture shock, something new and different from what he is usually used to back home in America. However, he makes a clear point that it isn’t culture shock but rather terms of physical location as the issue which debunks the myth of culture shock.

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