‘Exchange student \u2018party\u2019 is serious stuff’ here<\/a> .<\/p>\nWhile international students are eager to meet other Danish students, a large majority of them end up only making friendships and networking among other international exchange students, explains Kathrine Bruun Thomsen.<\/p>\n
\u00bbThe students in Erasmus are in a particular situation that they share with other Erasmus students. It is much easier to make friends among other Erasmus students, because they, like them, insist on making new friends. This openness is not shared by the Danish students because they are not in this same situation,\u00ab she says.<\/p>\n
Status from having Danish friends<\/h2>\n
The result is that in Copenhagen, like in other universities, two groups, the international and the Danish group, come to live in separate worlds.<\/p>\n
Some international students studied by Kathrine Bruun Thomsen were disappointed in not meeting any Danish friends during their stay. Other students had made it into their own pet project to get Danish friends, bragging to the other students when they were successful.<\/p>\n
A Lithuanian student quoted in the study related with pride how he had attended a party with only Danish friends. Now he tries to spend less time with Erasmus-students and more time with the Danes. <\/p>\n
\u00bbIt\u2019s more interesting and more challenging, because Erasmus-students, they\u2019re open and Danish people are not, so if you can manage to make friends with Danish people – it\u2019s something,\u00ab he said.<\/p>\n
Will leave soon anyway<\/h2>\n
But Danish students won\u2019t meet them with open arms. Several international students point to Danish people being particularly reserved.<\/p>\n
Kathrine Bruun Thomsen has another explanation however: For a Danish student, it may be seen as too much effort to strike up friendships with exchange students as they are leaving soon anyway. As a female student from Belgium puts it:<\/p>\n
\u00bbI guess Danish students don\u2019t see the point in it, because they know that we are here for four months – so what\u2019s the point? Or maybe they\u2019re just not interested. I don\u2019t really know,\u00ab she says.<\/p>\n
When Kathrine Bruun Thomsen questioned the students it turned out that they themselves had very little contact with international students at home in their own country for the same reasons.<\/p>\n
No Danish friends, but a success<\/h2>\n
Several exchange students point out that one of their goals with their exchange period was to meet other nationalities. This, meeting nationalities other than Danes, is not a problem, says Kathrine Bruun Thomsen.<\/p>\n
The University of Copenhagen, like other universities has a mentor-scheme, designed to make students quickly feel at home in Denmark.<\/p>\n
International students do indeed feel welcomed by the university, and Kathrine Bruun Thomsen wonders whether any attempt to break the ice between the two groups, exchange students and Danes, is doomed to failure.<\/p>\n
\u00bbI have thought a good deal about this. Why is it actually necessary that you make friends with people who have a home in the city where you are an exchange student? I mean: You are only going to be there for one or two semesters. Maybe we should not judge the success of our study abroad on how many Danes we meet, \u00ab she says.<\/p>\n
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But the same international students admit that they don\u2019t go out of their way to make friends with foreign students in their own country.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/article\/exchange-student-party-serious-stuff\">‘Exchange student \u2018party\u2019 is serious stuff’ here<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>While international students are eager to meet other Danish students, a large majority of them end up only making friendships and networking among other international exchange students, explains Kathrine Bruun Thomsen.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe students in Erasmus are in a particular situation that they share with other Erasmus students. It is much easier to make friends among other Erasmus students, because they, like them, insist on making new friends. This openness is not shared by the Danish students because they are not in this same situation,\u00ab she says.<\/p>\n<h2>Status from having Danish friends<\/h2>\n<p>The result is that in Copenhagen, like in other universities, two groups, the international and the Danish group, come to live in separate worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Some international students studied by Kathrine Bruun Thomsen were disappointed in not meeting any Danish friends during their stay. Other students had made it into their own pet project to get Danish friends, bragging to the other students when they were successful.<\/p>\n<p>A Lithuanian student quoted in the study related with pride how he had attended a party with only Danish friends. Now he tries to spend less time with Erasmus-students and more time with the Danes. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIt\u2019s more interesting and more challenging, because Erasmus-students, they\u2019re open and Danish people are not, so if you can manage to make friends with Danish people – it\u2019s something,\u00ab he said.<\/p>\n<h2>Will leave soon anyway<\/h2>\n<p>But Danish students won\u2019t meet them with open arms. Several international students point to Danish people being particularly reserved.<\/p>\n<p>Kathrine Bruun Thomsen has another explanation however: For a Danish student, it may be seen as too much effort to strike up friendships with exchange students as they are leaving soon anyway. As a female student from Belgium puts it:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI guess Danish students don\u2019t see the point in it, because they know that we are here for four months – so what\u2019s the point? Or maybe they\u2019re just not interested. I don\u2019t really know,\u00ab she says.<\/p>\n<p>When Kathrine Bruun Thomsen questioned the students it turned out that they themselves had very little contact with international students at home in their own country for the same reasons.<\/p>\n<h2>No Danish friends, but a success<\/h2>\n<p>Several exchange students point out that one of their goals with their exchange period was to meet other nationalities. This, meeting nationalities other than Danes, is not a problem, says Kathrine Bruun Thomsen.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Copenhagen, like other universities has a mentor-scheme, designed to make students quickly feel at home in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>International students do indeed feel welcomed by the university, and Kathrine Bruun Thomsen wonders whether any attempt to break the ice between the two groups, exchange students and Danes, is doomed to failure.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI have thought a good deal about this. Why is it actually necessary that you make friends with people who have a home in the city where you are an exchange student? I mean: You are only going to be there for one or two semesters. Maybe we should not judge the success of our study abroad on how many Danes we meet, \u00ab she says.<\/p>\n<p>miy@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay in the know about news and events happening in Copenhagen by <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">signing up<\/a> for the University Post\u2019s weekly newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":44,"name":"Campus","slug":"campus","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":44,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1547,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11493,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/P9022509_0-1280x1707.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40564,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25878\/revisions\/40564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}