FAR OUT: Adventures in Returning Home

FAROUT #62: Culture shock

Episode Summary

Alasdair & Julie-Roxane share travel stories and explore what it means to be culture-shocked.

Episode Notes

Listen and explore:

• Alasdair's experience of culture shock in Kathmandu
• Stories from Alasdair and JR's travels around the world
• What it means to be culture shocked 
• What culture shock does to our sense of self
• Reverse culture shock: what Alasdair and JR noticed when they returned to the West after a year in Asia
• Asia's and the West's different attitudes toward death
• Alasdair and JR's feeling of being a stranger in their own land

Mentioned on this episode:

• FAR OUT #9: Welcome to L-town

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Credits:

• Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonald
• Outro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)