English
Noun
culture shock (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, the culture shock of moving to Harlem was tremendous.
Translations
state of anxious confusion
- Arabic: صَدْمَة ثَقَافِيَّة f (ṣadma ṯaqāfiyya)
- Bulgarian: културен шок m (kultúren šok)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 文化衝擊 (zh), 文化冲击 (zh) (wénhuà chōngjí), 文化震驚, 文化震惊 (wénhuà zhènjīng), 文化休克 (wénhuà xiūkè)
- Czech: kulturní šok m
- Dutch: cultuurschok (nl) m
- Finnish: kulttuurishokki
- French: choc des cultures m, choc culturel (fr) m
- German: Kulturschock (de) m
- Hungarian: kulturális sokk
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- Japanese: カルチャーショック (karuchāshokku)
- Korean: 문화 충격 (munhwa chunggyeok) (文化衝擊)
- Malay: kejutan budaya
- Mongolian: соёлын шок (sojolyn šok)
- Polish: szok kulturowy m
- Portuguese: choque cultural (pt) m
- Russian: культу́рный шок (ru) m (kulʹtúrnyj šok)
- Scottish Gaelic: buille chultarail f
- Spanish: choque cultural m
- Swedish: kulturkrock
- Turkish: kültür şoku, kültür bunalımı
- Vietnamese: sốc văn hoá
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