https://forgeover.com/tags/culture-shock/ Recent content in Culture Shock on Forgeover Hugo en-us Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:01:57 +0000 https://forgeover.com/articles/family/native-culture-shock/ Wed, 03 Dec 2014 08:11:49 +0000 https://forgeover.com/articles/family/native-culture-shock/ <p>I&rsquo;ve been meaning to sit down and put my thoughts to words for a week now. Arriving in the United States after 3 years abroad was certain to be a bit of a transition. This long separation is compounded by the nature of my lifestyle: the constantly shifting landscape (literally and metaphorically); the unique challenges of a life at sea; establishing myself for life and work in a (not so, but still) foreign country; and the very real fact that I have, over the past 3 years, manifested a life that is as close to my personal ideal as one can get while still balancing the needs and desires of three other individual beings.</p>