Thundercat Quotes

I was very surprised when I first started spending time in America. The culture shock was something I wasn't prepared for. I had a lot of work to do to try to begin to understand this enormous and complex country that I thought would be an easy process.

Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

What is newest to one in foreign countries is not always the people, but their surroundings, and those same little details of life and circumstance which make no impression on a man in his own land until he returns to it after a prolonged absence, and then they stand out very sharply for a while.

Going to the U.A.E. for the first time was a real cultural shock. Everything was different. People didn't speak my language, it was all new, a huge change. But I loved it.

America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

I have not got accustomed to English life. The food is truly disastrous and it rains all the time.

I had a chance to go to Italy when I was younger and that would have been tough because of the language. America is easier but I really loved it.

I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are.

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

When we arrived in Japan in 1988, we were not prepared for the overwhelming support shown to us.

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

I find it very beautiful to work in different countries because I see the mentality differences there. It is so rich, one always carries forward something.

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn't need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair.

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

I went to England for five months when I was in high school, by myself, so I did experience a bit of being the fish out of water.

I love Tokyo, I've been several times. The first trip was just weird; it was a weird time. It was in the '90s, and it was different then.

I always like to get local music when I'm in another country.

When you're not born in this country, you kind of study how people talk and how they act, and you try and break things down.

In 2007, I went straight from Tokyo to Iowa to join Hillary Clinton's traveling press. I felt like a foreigner there, too. I remember thinking, 'Americans are huge.'

If you go in Spain, you have to play with another style. The English culture is the English culture. If you come here, you have to play in this style.

Wherever you go, respect the local culture or you will suffer.

Everything in Asia is a culture shock, it's very different from North America, but it's great to be forced into a situation to meet new people and learn new techniques.

I always say the diversity, and culture is the one thing I love the most about the U.S. How you can travel across one borderline and you end up with this whole new set of people that I find super-interesting and great on tour.