“I foresee death by culture shock.”
“Cultural shock' is an academic word for 'I don't like it here'.”
“People had warned me about the culture shock of going to Africa. Nothing prepared me for the culture shock of coming the other way. No matter how much I talked no-one understood what I was saying.”
“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”
“I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.”
“Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.”