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The struggle, according to Cuddihy, is between the Gentile "host culture/etiquette" that the Jew tries to integrate and his tough, loving community (Yiddishkeit), which is the subject of their "unconsummated social courtship of Gentile and Jew." Cuddihy refers to it as a decolonized people's trauma of culture shock.
