THE EXPATRIATE’S ALIENATION: A GUIDE TO OVERCOMING FEELINGS OF HOMESICKNESS
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You’re somewhere new and unfamiliar, far removed from the localities and situations to which you are adapted. It doesn’t matter if you’re an expatriate in a new land or a new college student packed like a sardine in your first dorm, the feeling of homesickness is an acute feeling of alienation and uncertainty. Your past cannot inform you of your future, at least at first, and you feel a bit out at sea. How far out depends on how alien your new surroundings are and how well you did your homework.
Homesickness was mentioned in the Bible’s Old Testament book of Exodus and in Homer’s “Odyssey.” Odysseus wept and rolled on the ground in misery as he thought of home. Homesickness happens to individuals from all walks of life away from home – athletes, actors and musicians alike. Even the most adventurous expatriate gets homesick.
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