“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.” — Barbara Haines Howett Copy Share Image
America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. — Florence King Copy Share Image
We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a… — Seinabo Sey Copy Share Image
“A wide-brimmed spinster’s hat had been thrown up in the sky. It was gradually falling into the deep ocean.” — Zoë S. Roy Copy Share Image
New York was my first stop after school because I thought Los Angeles would be too much of culture shock. — Matthew Bomer Copy Share Image
Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock. — Tequan Richmond Copy Share Image
Growing up in Bombay made me immune to culture shock, in a way. So, culture shock is not part of my DNA. — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
“Studying culture without experiencing culture shock is like practicing swimming without experiencing water.” — Geert Hofstede Copy Share Image
In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
It was such a culture shock for me, being plucked from this diverse neighborhood in London into Jamaica Queens. I'm in this… — Ella Mai Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't know the culture shock of how you can be in a rich area and then be in… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
“What makes coming home so jarring, compared to other returns from other exotic places—―isn't simply culture shock. It's human shock, seeing so… — Laurence C. Smith Copy Share Image
When I moved over to the States full time it was a culture shock. I had a great life over there, I… — Dario Franchitti Copy Share Image
After the stretch of weather we've had, this is going to be a culture shock for some people. We always end up… — Paul Gross Copy Share Image
When I got divorced, it was another culture shock. It was going from this world I had been into since the age… — Mayte Garcia Copy Share Image
When I left the U.S. for the first time, I spent my first year abroad in Japan. That culture shock and abundance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street,… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
If I'd grown up in Atlanta and then gone to Ottumwa, Iowa it may have been culture shock, but I was used… — Todd Grisham Copy Share Image
I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out… — Maika Monroe Copy Share Image
Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels!… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
When I was in Taiwan, we were there for about 8 months, and I was 11 at the time, so it was… — David Lambert Copy Share Image
When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
I don't know if I can handle living in Tokyo. I feel like the culture shock would be so intense, especially with… — Stephen Bruner Copy Share Image
“The perpetrator of such a misdemeanor must have a motive. Is UMMO the private joke of a group of Spanish engineers? Is… — Jacques F. Vallée Copy Share Image
When I moved to Mumbai for college, it was bit of a culture shock. — Sobhita Dhulipala Copy Share Image
Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply. — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
I went back to Hong Kong for the first time in 17 years and I was culture shocked in Hong Kong. — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
It was a culture shock at first, moving from Michigan to Mississippi. But it ended up being the best decision I ever… — Devin Booker Copy Share Image
The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore. — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn't prepared for. I… — Clare-Hope Ashitey Copy Share Image
When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
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… — Hiroyuki Sanada Copy Share Image
Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
“Amazing that you can get a cappuccino at a gas station in L.A. at four in the morning and you can't buy… — Annie Ward Copy Share Image
So I was really excited when I came to America about meeting black people. But it was a huge culture shock, because… — Jodie Turner-Smith Copy Share Image
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