culture shock

English

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Etymology

from the earlier form cultural shock

Noun

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.

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