Host Culture

The engaging in higher education sector reported by Australian education system in august 2012, ranked the first among all education sector, it represent a 1.5 % growth as compare to 2011. International students have to face lot of problems like- food , difficulties in understanding the rules , traffic saftey , food intelligibility.
Many challenges have to face by the international students who give preference to study abroad. A huge difference between the culture of beginning and host culture, like- language experience, gender, age, education level. According to a survey done at Australian universities international students showed evidence of distress , discomfort , dislocation . It was suppose that the homesickness was happened to missing family , friends. Individuals who are unaware of their own values and belief system are most likely to bring liablity into perception and conflict. Personality disintegration may result as there are psychological as one moves to new environment. …show more content…
Second phase is disintegration which is viewed to begin with a sense of confusion,sense of isolation , division.Third stage is reintegration which is marked by strong disapproval of second culture . All the cultural similarities as well as differences are rejected and these rejections are result of stereotyping difficulties , generalizations which are due to judgmental behaviour and attitudes. Every field from career selection , finding accommodation , getting familiar with transport system takes time and this time period adds to feeling of homesickness. The last stage is disintigreation- which is viewed to begin with a sense of confusion. Sense of isolation , bewilderment , alienation