I say this not just to pettily express my annoyance at deliberately studying in a country with an 18+ drinking age only to discover that clubs enforce a higher standard. Many of those would take a Google search or more, but the little differences pile on faster than I can or care to research… Hence, culture shock. Wanting to integrate into my host country’s culture means trying to attain a sense of what culture means. Olivia Rodrigo released a new album last week, and in my semi-monthly ritual of reminding myself that I do like contemporary pop music, I listened to it. The both ostensibly dadaist and anti-dadaist uncontextualizability offer an alternative to the necessity of experiencing culture as deeper than that sum of physical artifacts.

Source: Daily Sun September 14, 2023 12:59 UTC