The Storms of Cultural Ignorance

People really are—in effect—going to another planet when living in disparate cultures, including this one. What could be done to prepare them? (This is an informal blog entry.)

Good morning. I was up late reading about therapy for immigrants of a certain Asian country I’ve lived in. Four points struck me:

1. We probably shouldn’t go abroad to live and work having learned only the celebratory aspects of a foreign culture, but could gain enormously—becoming more helpful and even benefiting prophylactic-ally—from psychological an…