Crisis in cultural adjustment : a comparative study of Indian and Korean graduate students at Texas A&M University /
acculturation to a host society. It also examined the coping
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | acculturation to a host society. It also examined the coping American students. American students. Yet, both groups claimed to be as their greatest handicap. Although it was found that all backgrounds, motivations for study abroad, fluency in the cited finances as their most serious problem studying abroad, dependent on successful cross-cultural relationships with different strategies depending on their advantages or disadvantages in each particular area. Indian students often dissatisfied with their perceived lack of interaction with environment. International Indian and Korean graduate host language, average age,, academic adjustments, and of these factors contribute, either positively or negatively, social acculturation to the host country appears to be highly sociocultural characteristics. The two student groups used strategies utilized for success in a new academic student groups were analyzed by comparing historical-cultural This study was designed to determine factors influencing toward the acculturation process, the sociocultural factor was the most critical of the factors examined. Achieving while Korean students generally listed linguistic inadequacy |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Anthropology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | x, 244 leaves ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |