| 单词 | culture shock |
| 释义 | > as lemmasculture shock culture shock n. a state of distress or disorientation brought about by sudden immersion in or subjection to an unfamiliar culture. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > change > shock due to unfamiliar culture culture shock1932 1932 Econ. Jrnl. 42 301 Culture-shock is invoked over and over again in this volume to account for religious indifferentism, poverty, crime and mental disease. 1940 J. B. Holt in Amer. Sociol. Rev. Oct. 744 All these citations suggest the ‘culture shock’ arising from the precipitation of a rural person or group into an urban situation. 1960 Listener 18 Aug. 244/1 The people of the host country appear to lack the normal conventions of social behaviour or to have a different and apparently illogical system... Most Europeans in Africa withdraw into their own community, and quickly equate their own way of doing things with their own superior material culture... This reaction..has been called ‘culture shock’. 1970 A. Toffler Future Shock i. 12 Culture shock is the effect that, immersion in a strange culture has on the unprepared visitor... Culture shock is what happens when a traveler suddenly finds himself in a place where yes may mean no, where a ‘fixed price’ is negotiable, where to be kept waiting in an outer office is no cause for insult, where laughter may signify anger. 2004 J. L. Kincheloe in S. R. Steinberg & J. L. Kincheloe 19 Urban Questions i. 12 Many new teachers experience culture shock during the first few weeks and months in their new positions. < as lemmas |
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