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/^t/On arrival, we reach the second stage of adjustment, during which we become used to the newness of the physical reality: our immediate surroundings, the landscape, the climate, the people. Thus an Australian visiting England is no longer surprised at the perpetuall rain, and an Englishman in Australia starts perceiving the thousands of kangaroos hopping around as an everyday view. The Pole in Africa becomes accustomed to seeing black people exclusively, and the African in Poland to being surrounded by whites only. And once they do, they can pass on to the third stage in the adjustment cycle.