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Beautiful New World I arrived Bangalore again with five months’ interval. Through Hospitalityclub I found a very friendly and mannered member V . After a couple of conversations, he showed me his hospitality and invited me sincerely to stay in the guest room of his condo temporarily for some time. This community has a beautiful name, it is called "Suncity." Being here was a familiar yet new feeling and experience! Due to India's rapid economic development and housing needs of the middle-class, this kind of communities has long been unstoppable trend in Bangalore. They are usually sited in the surrounding urban area, V. explained to me that they sometimes have been called "cellular apartments". According to their sizes and numbers, it was indeed no exaggeration. I was tempted to make myself feel fully integrated to this environment. Still I was feeling a bit embarrassed because of my "different appearance", no matter if I walked down in the community or went for groceries in the only small supermarket there. I guess, that feeling perhaps derived from my normal concept of what "real Indian world" should be, to which I had not been re-connected yet by that time. Furthermore, I haven’t adjusted myself that much to this new world which was kind of isolated in the suburbs. All these conditions had created such a complex of my own: an usual traveler who had been traveled in this country for many times tried to turn herself into a comfortable local residents who had still quite some cultural gaps and did not speak any local language for communication. This certainly was why it didn’t work out so easily. Well, it was still quite distanced to “arrive” properly in this "Beautiful New World". Who knows what kind of units one should use for measuring psychological distance and cultural differences? Bangalore/India, 2010 
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