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The Never-Ending Cycles of Cultural Adjustment

7th
Feb. × ’10
The stages of cultural adjustment have been written about a lot.  It’s nothing new to highlight the honeymoon stage, the hostility stage, the acceptance stage, and the (somewhat dubious and too often too early too triumphantly declared) home stage.  Here in Oaxaca that might be called the mole-n’-chapulines stage, the WTF traffic/construction/machismo/why-does-it-take-30-minutes-to-get-that-coffee-I-ordered? stage, the oh-Mexico [...]
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