Reverse Culture Shock Quotes

For someone who doesn't live there, when I go back to Scotland it's very weird for me.

And that is something I've heard from many people who immigrate is that when they go back to their home countries, in a way, they think they're going to be embraced and completely feel like they've come home. This disconcerting thing is when you go back there and you feel more foreign than you ever have.

Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.

My life experiences are different than the average person because I've spent the last 10 years living in Mexico. I generally don't know what's going on in America, and when I do visit for work, I'm often interrogated about my life choices by random strangers.

I was born and raised in West Hills. I moved to Korea when I was 15. I've been back and forth since.

Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse.

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

Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.

But I can definitely say that when I go back to China, I feel very foreign there.

The longer I lived overseas, the more I appreciated being from South Africa.

I always have an adjustment period where I'm so happy to be home, but then my sense of purpose is totally gone.

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge to keep in touch with my life in Ireland, but it was great fun. Now though, I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading.

Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.