Reverse Culture Shock Quotes

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“When you travel overseas, the locals see you as a foreigner, and when you return, you see the locals as foreigners.”
Robert Black

James Joyce
“It is dangerous to abandon one's own country,
but it is more dangerous still to return to it, for then your fellow country-men, if they can, will drive a knife into your heart.”
James Joyce

Jia Tolentino
“After Peace Corps, I kept at it. I was back in Houston, I had a lot of spare time, and I spent it at midday yoga classes at expensive studios to which I would buy discounted first-time packages and never return. This period, around 2011, reintroduced me to the world of American abundance. The first time I went into a grocery store and saw how many different fruits there were, I cried. At these yoga classes, I marveled at the fanatic high functionality of the women around me...I was not, at the time, on their level: I had been taking giardia shits in a backyard outhouse for a year straight, and I was flooded with dread and spiritual uselessness, the sense that I had failed myself and others, the fear that I would never again be use to another human being.”
Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion