Culture Shock

*picture from Iceland Every trip abroad inevitably leads to the question of what are the cultural differences between your home and country x. Some people respond in neat little lists, others share their observations through amusing anecdotes and in the end everyone's a little happier for having clearly defined what makes one nation different from another. I'm not really intending to attack these summaries, but I personally don't feel qualified to give them. For one thing, time abroad is often short, even when I've lived abroad for six months what you observe in half a year would undoubtedly be different than your observations if you spent half of your life in a...