culture shock

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

Having grown up in rural Arkansas, the culture shock of moving to Harlem was tremendous.


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  • culture shock — UK / US noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms culture shock : singular culture shock plural culture shocks the nervous or confused feeling that people sometimes get when they arrive in a place that has a very different culture from their own …   English dictionary

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