DIMENSIONS OF DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED ON CULINARY BY SOJOURNERS; THE NIGERIAN STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES IN MALAYSIA

Author: 
Oladokun Lillian I. and Zainudin Hassan
Country: 
Malaysia
Abstract: 

Findings from  semi- structured interviews  with the postgraduate students from  a university in Malaysia, discoverered the challenges  relating to the feedings of the Nigerian international students in the new culture; Malaysian society. The study  explored the Nigerian students’challenges as it relates  to food in their host country.Many Nigerian students decried of   the hostels allocated by the institutions to  have no  functioning kitchens.   Findings revealed host’s local  food to lack variety,  been cooked with sugar and not salt which they are accustomed with. Findings revealed that  the host  country’s food is not satsifying and percieved as unhealthy due to its lack of variety .

KeyWords: 

Nigerian students, international education, culture shock,food.
 

Volume & Issue: 
Vol. 3, Issue,1
Pages: 
559-563
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