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Culture Shock

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Culture shock is the disorientation felt on entering a culture whose everyday rules differ from the ones a person learned without noticing.

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An employee transferred to an overseas office cannot read the unspoken meeting etiquette and spends ordinary workdays exhausted.

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The shock comes from the small unwritten rules, not the famous differences a guidebook lists.