Related:

• Native Aping: Pretending to be a native when visiting a foreign destination.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Recurving: Leaving one job to take another that pays less but places one back on the learning curve.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Historical Overdosing: To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.
  Major symptomes include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts....
• Historical Underdosing: To live in a period of time when nothing seems to happen.
  Major symptomes include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts....
• Occupational Slumming: Taking a job well beneath one's skill or education level as a means of retreat from adult responsibilities and/or avoiding possible failure in one's true occupation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Conversational Slumming: The self-conscious enjoyment of a given conversation precisely for its lack of intellectual rigor.
  A major spin-off of Recreational Slumming. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• 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....
• Nutritional Slumming: Food whose enjoyment stems not from flavor but from complex mixture of class connotations, nostalgia signals, and packaging semiotic
  Katie and I bought this tub of Multi-Whip instead of real whip cream because we thought petroleum distillate whip topping seemed like the sort of food that air force wives stationed in Pensacola back in the early sixties would feed their husbands to celebrate a career promotion....