cultural immersion
nounUK /ˈkʌl.tʃər.əl ɪˈmɜː.ʃən/
US /ˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl ɪˈmɝː.ʃən/
Living inside a new culture so you learn it by doing everyday things with the people there.
Her cultural immersion in Japan meant eating breakfast with her host family every morning.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A teaching method where students learn about a culture by taking part in its daily life.
The school's cultural immersion program sends students to live with families in Spain.
3. The feeling of being completely surrounded by another culture's sights, sounds, and habits.
Walking through the night market gave him a deep sense of cultural immersion.
4. A company practice of sending workers to live in a new country to understand its customers.
The design team did a month of cultural immersion before launching the product overseas.