Culture Shock Quotes

• Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Country, Travel, Long

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

  Florence King

  Country, Home, America

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.125, Macmillan

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• I foresee death by culture shock.

  Woody Allen

  Culture, Shock

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• It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its pressure, stress, enemies, critics; you have to develop relationships and a team. There are all of these things that go along with taking a leap and following your dreams.

  T. D. Jakes

  Dream, Stress, Team

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

  Steve Jobs

  Powerful, Impact, America

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• One of the things I tend to do is open myself up to a variety of voices. I try to expose myself to the kind of culture shock that occurs when you talk to people who speak a different language.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Voice, People, Trying

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• I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.

  Arthur Frommer

  Country, Depressing, Culture

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• Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Real, Culture, Coming Back

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.163, A&C Black

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• A lot of people don't know the culture shock of how you can be in a rich area and then be in poverty. People don't know how different it is over there.

  Wiz Khalifa

  People, Different, Culture

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

  Lynda Barry

  Couple, School, Kids

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• When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

  Bruce Beresford

  Growing Up, Men, White Man

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• After the stretch of weather we've had, this is going to be a culture shock for some people. We always end up crashing back to reality.

  Paul Gross

  Reality, Weather, People

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• Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

  Nina Nesbitt

  Moving, People, London

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light skin and straight hair. Then we moved to an all-white neighborhood and that was a culture shock ... I'd been used to being around all black kids.

  Halle Berry

  Kids, White, Light

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• Growing up in Bombay made me immune to culture shock, in a way. So, culture shock is not part of my DNA.

  Freida Pinto

  Growing Up, Dna, Culture

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Thinking, Japan, Culture

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• We're going to be surprised when we discover that things in Heaven are normal and natural, much like this life. Of course, it will be better, much more beautiful and supernatural, without all the troubles, trials, tribulations, suffering, tears and pain we have here. However, it will still be enough like this life that we will survive the change and not suffer some sort of traumatic culture shock. It'll be life very much like we're living now, only without the bad and evil.

  David Berg

  Beautiful, Pain, Evil

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• I moved from Italy to Oregon in the '80s - sort of like moving to the middle of a "Duck Dynasty" episode, which was massive culture shock to say the least.

  Rose McGowan

  Moving, Oregon, Ducks

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When i've done camera test, after we've shot and I've seen the monitor with the glasses (wearing a Kimono) and looking by myself in 3D. Oh my god. Especially for a Samurai film. I've never seen that. It's kind of a culture shock.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Glasses, Cameras, Culture

  Source: collider.com

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• If I'd grown up in Atlanta and then gone to Ottumwa, Iowa it may have been culture shock, but I was used to being in a small town and used to seeing the same people all the time and going to the same grocery store every day, so it wasn't that big of a deal for me. I was just excited to be on TV. I was just jumping for joy when I got there. I wasn't making any money, but I was sure happy.

  Todd Grisham

  Jumping, Atlanta, Iowa

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• The NBA is a culture shock for college kids, and even more so for kids from another country. The NBA is a unique environment, so there is going to be transition for any young kid, but I think coming from another country and culture is even harder. It does take a special toughness and confidence to deal with that, especially since a lot of times you don't play a lot as a young player.

  Austin Ainge

  Country, Kids, Unique

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?

  Beth Ditto

  Crazy, Order, Special

  Beth Ditto (2012). “Coal to Diamonds”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Religious, College, Rights

  Feisal Abdul Rauf (2012). “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you encounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.

  Florence King

  Suicide, Country, Strong

  Florence King (1976). “Southern ladies and gentlemen”

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• Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of dynastic marriage, the family tree of every royal house is an ethnic grab bag with something for everybody. We need this badly; America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. We can't go on much longer depending upon disasters like Pearl Harbor and the Iranian hostage-taking to "bring us together.

  Florence King

  Country, Home, Government

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.125, Macmillan

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