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/^t/Yet, any novelty stops being a novelty at some point, and sooner or later the travellers find themselves bored with the place they live in and the people they encounter everyday. After they have visited all the places worth visiting and after they have seen everything worth seeing, their lives become as mundane and they used to be in their native country. Thus, they go through the second stage of cultural shock when they come to realise the foreign country is not a lost paradise but a very earth-like affair.