English
Wikivoyage
Etymology
from the earlier form cultural shock
Noun
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.
Translations
state of anxious confusion
- Arabic: صَدْمَة ثَقَافِيَّة f (ṣadma ṯaqāfiyya)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: култу́рен шо́к m (kultúren šók)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 文化衝擊／文化冲击 (zh) (wénhuà chōngjī), 文化冲击 (zh) (wénhuà chōngjí), 文化震驚／文化震惊 (wénhuà zhènjīng), 文化震惊 (wénhuà zhènjīng), 文化休克 (wénhuà xiūkè), 文化震撼 (wénhuà zhènhàn), 文化震撼 (wénhuà zhènhàn), 文化衝突／文化冲突 (wénhuà chōngtū), 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 (fr) m, choc culturel (fr) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Kulturschock (de) m
- Hebrew: הלם תרבות (he) m (hélem tarbút)
- Hungarian: kulturális sokk
- Japanese: カルチャーショック (karuchāshokku)
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- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 문화 충격(文化衝擊) (munhwa chunggyeok)
- Malay: kejutan budaya
- Mongolian: соёлын шок (sojolyn šok)
- Polish: szok kulturowy m
- Portuguese: choque cultural (pt) m
- Romanian: șoc cultural n
- Russian: культу́рный шок (ru) m (kulʹtúrnyj šok)
- Scottish Gaelic: buille chultarail f
- Spanish: choque cultural m
- Swedish: kulturkrock (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: kültür şoku, kültür bunalımı
- Ukrainian: культу́рний шок (kulʹtúrnyj šok)
- Vietnamese: sốc văn hoá
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