&quot;Socially awkward&quot; seems to be a loaded term in your use case. If you are &quot;socially shy&quot;, then yes reading would help. But in the case you&#x27;re not socially awkward in your natural environment (ie you just lived in a different culture), the nuisances are impossible to learn unless you encountered it. Just think of it as a different culture, no East Asian will come to the US without fucking up something small or big a few times, and vice versa. Same for people of different classes.