culture shock
English
editEtymology
editFrom the earlier form cultural shock.
Noun
editculture shock (countable and uncountable, plural culture shocks)
- (anthropology, sociology) A state of anxious confusion experienced by someone exposed to an alien or unfamiliar environment.
- Having grown up in rural Arkansas, I experienced tremendous culture shock on moving to Harlem.
- 1982 December 4, Ilana Weinstock, “Letters From My Aunt”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 4:
Translations
editstate of anxious confusion
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