Sociology / Unit 3 Soc 0301 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Culture Shock
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The idea
Culture shock is the disorientation felt on entering a culture whose everyday rules differ from the ones a person learned without noticing.
In practice
An employee transferred to an overseas office cannot read the unspoken meeting etiquette and spends ordinary workdays exhausted.
Where people slip
The shock comes from the small unwritten rules, not the famous differences a guidebook lists.
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