a form of blindness resulting from having travelled to a remote part of the planet, under very
difficult conditions, only to realise that there's a tour group there. Expatriate myopia causes you to not
see the tour bus, the group or any
individual that may remotely come from where you're from. It's often accompanied by deafness. Usually contracted by backpackers...
Diane developed expatriate myopia in Bakit Lawang, having arrive there after a 23 hour bus trip, only to
find that every room was
taken by
Australian Year 12 students on schoolies.