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Native Aping: Pretending To Be A Native When Visiting A Foreign Destination.
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Native Aping:
Pretending to be a native when visiting a foreign destination.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
Expatriate Solipsism: When arriving in a foreign travel destination one has hoped was undiscovered, only to find many people just like oneself
he peeved refusal to talk to said people because they have ruined one's elitist travel fantasy....
Virgin Runway: A travel destination chosen in the hopes that no one else has chosen it.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Historical Slumming: The act of visiting locations such as dine
mokestack industrial sites, rural villages - locations where time appears to have been frozen many years back - so as to experience relief when one returns "back to the present....
Homeowner Envy: Feelings of jealousy generated in the young and the disenfranchised when facing gruesome housing statistics.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Metaphasia: An inability to perceive metaphor. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Paper Rabies: Hypersensitivity to littering. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
The love of meat prevents any real change. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
The Tens: The first decade of a new century. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X