International Students Overcome with Friendship

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Friends are an important part of life, when international students move away from their country to an unfamiliar place they typically need new friends to spend time and enjoy. According to Curry and Dunbar (2011), a solid bond between a group of friends offers many unnoticed benefits, which have a lifelong importance. Furthermore, friends support each other emotionally and through times of financial difficulty. However, international students seem to face a difficulty when attempting to interact socially to create fresh friendships in a foreign country. The purpose of this essay is to analyse the social issue that faces international students and include some useful solutions for it. One of the main problems confronting international students is to create new friendships with others, who come from different backgrounds. Constantine (2005) states that some students might find it challenging to create friendships and to lead active social lives because of a list of reasons, such as their limited English skills, lack of experience and familiarity with students’ interactive behavio...

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