Adapting to a New Culture Video (6:57) and Three Companion Resources

A public performance license for “Adapting to a New Culture,” a Pioneer Living video exploring the emotional stages every newcomer moves through — euphoria, culture shock, adjustment, and adaptation — featuring insight drawn from the original PBS Plus series hosted by Pat Morita. Includes a companion Teacher & Facilitator Resource with vocabulary, discussion questions, and a modern research update, useful for classrooms, orientation sessions, and one-on-one casework. Also includes two PowerPoint presentations for staff development, employee onboarding, college-level social studies, migration, public policy and psychology courses.

Every person who has ever moved to a new country, city, or community has felt some version of this arc: the excitement of something new, the frustration when daily life gets hard, and eventually, a sense of belonging that includes both where they came from and where they are now. “Adapting to a New Culture” puts language to that experience, drawing on decades of cross-cultural psychology and Pioneer Living’s own archive of interviews with people who lived it firsthand.

This license includes:

• The video, licensed for public performance in classrooms, orientation sessions, staff trainings, and community programs. Length: 6 min. 57 sec.
• A companion Teacher & Facilitator Resource covering the classic stages of cultural adaptation alongside a “Then & Now” look at how technology, translation apps, affordable travel, and large multicultural communities have changed the adjustment process for today’s newcomers.
• Vocabulary list, comprehension quiz, discussion questions, and answer key, so the resource works whether you’re leading a class, training new staff, or handing it directly to someone going through the experience right now.
• Two PowerPoint presentations - "The Arc of Belonging - Understanding Expatriates and International Professionals" and "Rethinking Cultural Adaptation: For Educators & Psychologists."
  

Who this is for:

• HR and corporate learning teams building cultural competency or onboarding content for a multicultural workforce.
• ESL and adult education programs looking for discussion-ready content that goes beyond grammar drills.
• Nonprofits and resettlement organizations who want a shareable resource for newcomers and the case workers, volunteers, and mentors who support them, whether or not it’s used in a formal classroom.
• Community organizations and libraries hosting newcomer or immigrant support programs.

Open captioned video to assist ESL students and for accessibility and clarity of pronunciation. 

This is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped.

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MP4 Video file - 93.9MB

Word document "The Steps of Cultural Adaptation - Worksheet" 5 pages, 35.1KB

PowerPoint "The Arc of Belonging: For Expatriates and International Professionals" 10 Slides, 14MB

PowerPoint "Rethinking Cultural Adaptation: For Educators & Psychologists" 7 Slides, 9.67MB

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Purchase of this product grants the purchaser a non-exclusive license to download and display this program for educational, governmental, nonprofit, and internal organizational purposes.

Public Performance Rights (PPR) are included. The purchaser may exhibit the program to in-person audiences within a single institution, agency, department, office, classroom, conference, workshop, or staff development setting without additional fees.

Permitted uses include:

✓ Classroom instruction
✓ Staff development and professional training
✓ Internal governmental and nonprofit presentations
✓ Policy seminars and discussion groups
✓ Conference and workshop presentations
✓ Library and educational screenings

The license does not permit:

✗ Broadcasting, retransmission, or cable distribution
✗ Posting the video to public websites or social media platforms
✗ Commercial theatrical exhibition
✗ Resale, redistribution, or sublicensing of the video files
✗ Uploading to learning management systems accessible outside the licensed institution without written permission

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