Culture shock at “home”!
The idea of finding all sorts of people across the globe is ordinary; but the real eye-opener for me was when I was thunder bolted with culture shock at “home”, in the country I was born and bred. After having lived overseas for over 2 decades and not many reasons to visit, I felt totally alienated to the entire culture on my last couple of visits. We talk about racism in western countries, but I had a few encounters in my own home solely because of the blonde colour of my hair. I was called, “corona” whilst crossing a road, a passenger sitting next to me on a train decided to move only because of that reason -this was during the pandemic. Ironically, I come from a country which didn’t have a single case of Covid for over 2 years ! Let alone strangers, I had a few ordeals with my own family starting with denouncing a post on social media where I would say I have no regrets I have raised my daughter in a certain way and she doesn’t speak any Indian languages – the criticism lays i...