The Idea of Reverse Culture Shock

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I grew up in the Greater Philadelphia Region and lived here most of my life except for college in Pittsburgh, part of a year in DC and my year in China. I thought I was comfortable and familiar with my life here. Then I went off to China for a year, looked around shocked by all the differences and slowly got accustomed to them in my time in Wuhan.

A year has past and it seems now that the things I find strange aren’t the live turtles in Walmart or the celebrity status of a foreigner, but instead things I must have loved or just took as normal before. This post is the beginning of my series of posts related to things that I have seen in my time back in America that has freaked me out to the point of overwhelmity.

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