When people talk about being between worlds, they generally mean cultural dislocation of a geopolitical sort.
The question of cultural multiplicity as opposed to cultural dislocation comes into play.
This 30-year-old company may traffic in the ironies of cultural dislocation.
But its underlying message is one of cultural and historical dislocation.
Because the movie doesn't translate its Japanese dialogue, it immerses you in the experience of cultural dislocation.
Southern Vietnam is full of stories of cultural dislocation among those who stayed after the war ended in 1975.
They were probably also instinctively aware that they had suffered enough cultural dislocation, as their own traditions eroded.
Surely, then, to avoid catastrophic cultural dislocation, it is best that it filter down under the restraining hand of the older order.
He considered western education and its subsequent social and cultural dislocation as indispensable in creating a revolutionary atmosphere.
Perhaps the new political order cannot be forged without the pain of cultural dislocation.