Vulture Shock

Vulture Shock

n.
the nagging sense that no matter how many days you spend exploring a foreign country, you never quite manage to step foot in it—instead floating high above the culture like a diver over a reef, too dazzled by its exotic quirks to notice its problems and complexities and banalities, while drawing from the heavy tank of assumptions that you carry on your back wherever you go.

From vulture, an animal that hovers high over its prey + culture shock, the confusion of having to adjust to a culture different than the one you’re used to.

Justing

Volander

Slipfast

Elsewise

Rückkehrunruhe

Ghough

Exulansis

Ne’er-Be-Gone

Funkenzwangsvorstellung

Funkenzwang-svorstellung

Fitzcarraldo

Aubadoir

Plata Rasa

Ringlorn

Kairosclerosis

Wildred

Scabulous

Vulture Shock

Hanker Sore

Volander

Thrapt

Innity

a neatly made bed with diffused light glowing

Craxis

a tall house of cards

Trumspringa

Ecsis

a hand holding a fossil

Fensiveness

Bareleveling