ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how a student's home culture was seen in the host culture. It discusses four different ways of explaining and exploring specific elements of culture. These dimensions of cultural variation will provide university students with a frame to compare and contrast their home and host cultures. Making these comparisons will help university students to make sense of their re-entry experiences. Research suggests that students in re-entry may also feel a certain amount of ambivalence toward their home culture. Lorraine Brown and Iain Graham found returnees reported being aware that "realigning students' new self with the home culture might be problematic." Research suggests that students in re-entry may also feel a certain amount of ambivalence toward their home culture. Victoria Christofi and Charles Thompson's work suggests that returnees may have a new view of home that challenges their idealized version of home that they had in mind when they were abroad.
