Definitions for culture shock
cul·ture shock

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1. culture shocknoun

   a condition of disorientation affecting someone who is suddenly exposed to an unfamiliar culture or way of life or set of attitudes

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1. culture shocknoun

   A state of anxious confusion experienced by someone exposed to an alien or unfamiliar environment.

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1. culture shock

   Culture shock refers to the feeling of disorientation, confusion, or anxiety that a person may experience when they move to a cultural environment which is significantly different from their own. It often involves difficulty in understanding and adapting to new social norms, behaviors, customs, languages, and values. This phenomenon is common among travelers, immigrants, foreign workers, and students studying abroad.

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1. Culture shock

   Culture shock is the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar way of life due to immigration or a visit to a new country, or to a move between social environments, also a simple travel to another type of life. One of the most common causes of culture shock involves individuals in a foreign environment. Culture shock can be described as consisting of at least one of four distinct phases: Honeymoon, Negotiation, Adjustment, and Mastery, are the most common attributes that pertain to existing problems, further hindrances include: information overload, language barrier, generation gap, technology gap, skill interdependence, formulation dependency, homesickness, infinite regress, boredom, response ability. There is no true way to entirely prevent culture shock, as individuals in any society are personally affected by cultural contrasts differently.

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How to pronounce culture shock?

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Karen

   Australian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of culture shock in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of culture shock in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of culture shock in a Sentence

1. Matthias Doepke:

   All these companies now have to make this work, with families being at home and having these other responsibilities, it might be a culture shock that has implications on equality.

2. Nik Izani Nik Ibrahim:

   It was a culture shock.

3. William Rehnquist:

   I underwent the sort of culture shock.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=culture shock
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Culture_Shock
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=culture shock