Travel Minx

How To Cope With Reverse Culture Shock

If you’ve just returned to your home country after a long absence, you’re likely to experience reverse culture shock. It occurs when you’ve been away long enough to find strange what was once familiar, because in the meantime you’ve adapted to living somewhere very different and your home country has probably changed a bit, too. [...]

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Culture Shock!

Culture Shock hits most travelers at some stage. It hit me the first time I left New Zealand properly (as in, packed up and moved away for my first OE) when I arrived in Bangkok. Bangkok is smoggy, hot, hectic, basically very foreign if you’re from the country where Hobbiton was set. So I hid [...]

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