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Culture Shock

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Using a series of vignettes spanning three years, the author examines how experiences in another culture affected her understanding of her role as a female in society. The vignettes show her grappling with insecurities over her place in a new culture, the juxtaposition between what she has always known and the new culture she is a part of, the process of embracing her new culture, and the dissonance between the two worlds upon her return to the United States. With two different views on the roles of women in society, the author struggles to reconcile the different sets of expectations she has for herself as she searches for the space where she belongs and the space where she wants to belong.

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  1. Faculty of Teaching and Learning, School of Education, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

    M. M. Rose-Mccully

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  1. Virginia Tech, USA

    Gresilda A. Tilley-Lubbs

  2. Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico

    Silvia Bénard Calva

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Rose-Mccully, M.M. (2016). Culture Shock. In: Tilley-Lubbs, G.A., Calva, S.B. (eds) Re-Telling Our Stories. Imagination and Praxis. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-567-8_14

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