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What does culture shock mean?

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Noun
  1. (anthropology, sociology) A state of anxious confusion experienced by someone exposed to an alien or unfamiliar environment.
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The adaptation to a new culture can be so profound that most students feel reverse culture shock.
She merely smiled when asked whether she had undergone any culture shock during her two-week visit.
He overcame the culture shock from the cosmopolitan, colourful world he saw there, and stayed for six years.
Arizona fans could be forgiven for experiencing spasms of such culture shock.
It was culture shock and a nightmare for a Filipina who used to be wooed extravagantly by Filipino bachelors back home.
It would be very normal for Westerners to experience some culture shock in Korea.

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