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/^t/People's expectations play a major role in re-encountering their own culture. Those who have lived abroad expect to have a higher salary, nicer house, better job, greater responsiblities at work, more opportunities for professional development when they return home. One of the myths is that things will work better back home. People believe, they will not have any adjustment problems because it is their own culture. Another fabricated opinion is that everything will be the same as it was when someone left off. Also people's new views on their own country delay the re-adjustment process. People try to integrate their new knowledge with the way things are done traditonally. They try to change the way people do things, only because they saw a "better" way. This claim carries a strong conviction about invaluability of one's new experience to the local community.