According to recent research by Barry (1992) it appears that 70 percent of university students suffered from homesickness. Barry, G. (1994, p111). Homesick freshman year. This statistic shows that a large number of students have experienced homesickness in the UK. What is homesickness? It is generally an emotion caused by separation from home. However, nostalgia depends on the situation; for example, if the other country has a different culture than your own country, the percentage of students who feel homesick will be higher. However, the distance between countries does not matter, as long as students live a life of their own away from home, they will miss the familiar routine, such as their parents' cooking. Furthermore, homesickness caused by many reasons, such as being sad away from home, negatively affects students and how to deal with homesickness. Homesickness is an emotion caused in many ways; for example, troops who were serving abroad and immigrants to another country. If I were a soldier, they would have asked me yes...
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