Reverse Culture Shock- part 4

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After spending a few years in Japan and having lived in a completely different culture from my Western one, I had to change myself and become someone else so that I would have an easier everyday life.
In the end, you don’t know who you are anymore: you are not the same person as the one in your own country. This is when the reverse culture shock takes shape, while you are back in France. You have a new perspective on your own country, on your own education, on your own culture. You see yourself with a fresh eye. And you realise that you are now someone who is shocked by or is surprised by:
In general with :
• Living with summer days where the sunset is at decent hours (= after 7.30 pm and sometimes until 10.45 pm)
• Getting on with the number of rainy days
• Women and men both wearing perfume
• Watching so many debates and reports on television
• Having the majority of men bigger than yourself
• Witnessing a true communication between sexes
• Not having to take the shoes off when entering a house, a clinic or your work place
• Seeing such sizes and old designs for the mobile phones
• So many old cars or cars in a bad condition
• Seeing so few big cars
Strangers at Home: Essays on the Effects of Living Overseas and Coming "Home" to a Strange Land: Essays on the Effects of Living Overseas and Coming "Home" to a Strange Land