Native Aping:
Pretending to be a native when visiting a foreign destination.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
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; the peeved... - Virgin Runway:
A travel destination chosen in the hopes that no one else has
chosen it.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Historical Slumming:
The act of visiting locations such as diners,
smokestack industrial sites, rural villages - locations... - Homeowner Envy:
Feelings of jealousy generated in the young and the
disenfranchised when facing gruesome housing statistics.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Poor Buoyancy:
The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Metaphasia:
An inability to perceive metaphor.
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Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Paper Rabies:
Hypersensitivity to littering.
-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation... - The love of meat prevents any real change.
-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation... - The Tens:
The first decade of a new century.
-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation...
From the same category:
- The State of Delaware has a law against pawning your
wooden leg... - Let us not say, Every man is the architect of his own fortune;
but let us say, Every man is the architect of his own... - Khan: "Ah Kirk, my old friend. Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us,
'Revenge is a dish that is best served cold'? It is... - I carry the dust of a journey.
. --... - Sandwich:
A faulty attempt to make both ends meat...
