Culture-specific behavioral meanings generate most urban culture-shock abroad

Evidence

Professional expatriates live like that. Real travelers are vulnerable creatures, at once attracted and repelled by the cultures they move among, but expatriates are hard to reach, hard to impress; they carry about with them the plastic bubble of their own culture, and nothing touches them until it has been filtered through the protective membrane of prejudice, the life-support system that forms their invisible excess baggage when they move on, from one contract to the next, to another country and another set of complaints. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 67 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Avoiding fearfully-labeled city areas costs urbanites movement and home feeling; Expatriates travel protected by a filtered bubble of their own culture — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 67; Encountering another culture can dissolve one’s own sense of meaning — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 14 (+1 more)

Related

• Expatriates travel protected by a filtered bubble of their own culture (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Expatriates travel protected by a filtered bubble of their own culture #corroborates (0.50) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 67
• Avoiding fearfully-labeled city areas costs urbanites movement and home feeling #complicates (0.35)