The term "culture shock" was introduced for the first time in 1958 to describe the anxiety produced when a person moves to a completely new environment. The feeling of culture shock generally sets in after the first few weeks of coming to a new place.

Even though I have never moved away from this country and lived in a different place altogether, I do have to tell you that over the last twenty years, I have experienced various degrees of culture shock right here in my own country. Let me tell you what I mean. Dartmouth Professor, Jeffrey Hart, said in a speech reported by the Wall Street Journal:

"A great many things happened all of a sudden in this country in the very recent past. Without going through the right or wrong of every case I list them objectivity. Within living memory, abort…