culture shock

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Etymology

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From the earlier form cultural shock.

Noun

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culture shock (countable and uncountable, plural culture shocks)

  1. (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:
      I went through another, reverse culture shock when I got back to Israel and the efort [sic] required to change from cherished and catered-to visitor to an ordinary working woman kept me away from my typewriter jor [sic] months.

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