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OverviewThe term ""cultural shock"" is often used lightly, associated with travel, relocation, or exposure to unfamiliar customs. In this book, it is used in a deeper and more exact sense. Cultural shock refers to the disturbance that occurs when inherited frameworks of meaning - those that shape identity, belonging, morality, and purpose - no longer provide coherence or recognition. This condition is no longer limited to migrants or outsiders. Increasingly, it is experienced by those who have never moved at all. Modern life intensifies this disturbance. Change accelerates faster than integration. Multiple value systems collide without mediation. Education transmits contradictory expectations. Technology reshapes attention, identity, and time itself. Old certainties are dismantled, while new ones remain provisional. In such conditions, cultural shock becomes not an exception, but a recurring feature of everyday existence. This book is written for readers who sense that the unease of our time is not merely personal, political, or technological, but cultural at its core. It is for those who feel caught between worlds - between past and present, tradition and modernity, depth and speed, belonging and freedom. If this book succeeds, it will not eliminate cultural shock. Nothing can. What it may do is restore dignity to the experience - to show that what feels like disorientation may, in fact, be a moment of reckoning in the evolution of meaning itself. The reader is invited not to agree, but to look closely. Not to adopt conclusions, but to recognize patterns. Not to escape culture, but to understand it deeply enough to live within it consciously. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bhushan KulkarniPublisher: Independently Published Imprint: Independently Published Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.191kg ISBN: 9798246385777Pages: 136 Publication Date: 31 January 2026 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Available To Order We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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