Feeling of homesickness is shared by every respondent, especially new students. However, to reduce the feeling of homesickness and loneliness, they often visit Chinese
friends, play games, chart with friends online, call to parents, or work hard on study or read books. However, more or less, those coping methods reduce the homesickness and loneliness stressor. But, the feeling of homesickness could not be totally solved since they are living without their family.
New students are shy to communicate with Thai and foreigners, especially female and young Chinese students. They felt they are poor in English and Thai; thus, they worry to make any mistake if they talk to Thai and foreigner too much. Also, they felt it is easy to communicate with Chinese since Chinese students have a common language and culture, but Thai and foreigner have different language and cultures as us. Probably, some misunderstandings will be caused if we communicate with them unsuitably. In addition, majority of news students have no experience in intercultural communication with foreigners; they don not know how to communicate with foreigners and they fear to lose face. Therefore, they try to avoid communicating with foreigners and Thai.
Crisis
Second 10 respondents are those Chinese students (in Bangkok University) who have been staying 6-18 months in Thailand. They are currently freshman in Bangkok University. There are several stressors that they mentioned in interviews; and their coping and adjustment methods are summarized in table 4 below.
Table 4: Intercultural communication stressors, copings, and adjustments in 6-18 months group.
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