Definitions for "Culture shock"
a feeling of confusion, distress, and sometimes depression that can result from the psychological stress that commonly occurs during the first weeks or months of a total cultural emersion in an alien society. Until the new culture becomes familiar and comfortable, it is common to have difficulty in communicating and to make frustrating mistakes. This is usually compounded by feelings of homesickness. These feelings can be emotionally debilitating. However, culture shock eventually passes for most people. See future shock.
a psychological disorientation experienced when attempting to operate in a radically different cultural environment.
A state of melancholy, anger or frustration which sets in trying to readjust to "normal" life after one has attended Burning Man.
Disorder that occurs in response to transition from one cultural setting to another. Former behavior patterns are ineffective in such a setting and basic cues for social behavior are absent.
Keywords:  reaction, lives, day, faced, people
the reaction people have when faced with another culture which changes their day-to-day lives.