Expatriates travel protected by a filtered bubble of their own culture

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

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 67
• XREF: connects to: Expatriates automatically act out assigned roles when meeting other cultures — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 742; Immigrants do not shed their former identity or cultural attachment with their home country despite expectations they develop local identity and belonging. — Who do you think I am? Immigrant’s first name and their perceived identity; Travelers’ firsthand experience could not overturn their Orientalist fantasies (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Self-fulfilment can positively appropriate globalised influences rather than retreat #complicates (0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 298
• Colonial comforts concealed estrangement from local people and from oneself #corroborates (0.65)