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culture shock

NOUN
sudden exposure to different culture
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There was a requisite culture shock, missing friends and family, and impostor syndrome.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Seemingly unfazed by anything and immune to culture shock, Dudamel instantly jumped in, insisting that he felt right at home in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

"It was a culture shock for me, I have to say, somebody who had won what he'd won and achieved what he had achieved in the game," Anderson said.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

It was a huge and, for many Imagineers, unwelcome culture shock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

It was culture shock in my own country.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola




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