English-Danish translations for culture shock

• kulturchok
  Her må vi på samme tid opfordre til dialog mellem kulturer og ikke til kulturchok. Here, at the same time, we must call for a dialogue of cultures and not of culture shocks.
  Jeg tror ikke, vi i vesten kan forstå det kulturchok, overgangen fra en styret kommunistisk økonomi til markedsøkonomi udgør. I believe that, in the West, we cannot appreciate the culture shock represented by a shift from a centrally-planned Communist economy to a market economy.

Definition of culture shock

• A state of anxious confusion experienced by someone exposed to an alien or unfamiliar environment

Examples

• Having grown up in rural Arkansas, I experienced tremendous culture shock on moving to Harlem.

Related words

• culture
• cultured
• agriculture
• counterculture
• horticulture
• aquaculture
• viticulture
• silviculture
• subculture
• apiculture