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Originally Posted by Nyororin
Wait - you read the book a long time ago?
I read the "New and Improved" version that was published very recently. (And supposedly by a completely different author)
We MAY be talking about very different books. In the version I read, there was pretty much nothing about culture shock itself. Just a lot of "You`ll find life in Japan shocking because of this! This! And this! Isn`t that all an awful waste of time? The culture we grew up in so much better, so it`s natural you won`t be able to deal with these inferior ideals" sort of feeling.
ETA: If you are talking about the older "version", it may very well be an excellent book on life and culture shock in Japan. (Though supposedly some aspects were outdated which led to it being replaced with the one I did read.) I`ve never read it. If so, I humbly apologize.
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Maybe! I'll check it out on Amazon.com. the book I read was a series called Culture Shock and had books for various countries. Stand by for more.