culture shock

English

from the earlier form cultural shock

culture shock (countable and uncountable, 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, I experienced tremendous culture shock on moving to Harlem.

state of anxious confusion

Arabic: صَدْمَة ثَقَافِيَّة‎ f (ṣadma ṯaqāfiyya)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
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), 文化震撼, 文化震撼 (wénhuà zhènhàn), 文化衝突, 文化冲突 (wénhuà chōngtū)
Czech: kulturní šok m
Danish: kulturchok
Dutch: cultuurschok (nl) m
Esperanto: kultura ŝoko
Finnish: kulttuurishokki (fi)
French: choc des cultures m, choc culturel (fr) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Kulturschock (de) m
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: kulturális sokk
Japanese: カルチャーショック (karuchāshokku)

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