A culture in which conformity of behaviour is maintained through the individual's fear of being shamed.
〔人类学〕（由于害怕蒙耻而努力遵守行为准则的）羞感文化，保面子文化
a shame culture, such as existed in Homeric times, puts high emphasis on preserving honour and on not being publicly disgraced
Compare with guilt culture
Example sentencesExamples
Well, I'm wondering whether the ‘hot-blooded’ tag can be aligned with a shame culture, regardless of the ethnic origin.
It is natural to suppose that Aristotle also subscribed to it, and it is significant that anthropologists have suggested that most human societies can be classified either as guilt cultures or as shame cultures.
He hangs this lazy column on the spirit of the season, but the spirit of this column is entirely that of the liberal shame culture.
In the honor / shame culture of the Arab world, it will be much harder now to pass him off as the mighty warrior.
Immersed in the striking honor / shame cultures of Antiquity, Paul regularly made use of clothing topoi to make pronouncements of a moral, social and religious kind.
Definition of shame culture in US English:
shame culture
noun
Anthropology
A culture in which conformity of behavior is maintained through the individual's fear of being shamed.
〔人类学〕（由于害怕蒙耻而努力遵守行为准则的）羞感文化，保面子文化
a shame culture, such as existed in Homeric times, puts high emphasis on preserving honor and on not being publicly disgraced
Example sentencesExamples
Immersed in the striking honor / shame cultures of Antiquity, Paul regularly made use of clothing topoi to make pronouncements of a moral, social and religious kind.
Well, I'm wondering whether the ‘hot-blooded’ tag can be aligned with a shame culture, regardless of the ethnic origin.
It is natural to suppose that Aristotle also subscribed to it, and it is significant that anthropologists have suggested that most human societies can be classified either as guilt cultures or as shame cultures.
He hangs this lazy column on the spirit of the season, but the spirit of this column is entirely that of the liberal shame culture.
In the honor / shame culture of the Arab world, it will be much harder now to pass him off as the mighty warrior.