Why do I feel lonely even when I have friends in a new country?

Name: Anthropos cultural knowledge base
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Anthropos · Accepted Answer

Because friendship is culturally coded. In a Relational Keeper culture, closeness is daily contact and food; in an Autonomous Navigator culture, it is respect for boundaries and occasional depth. Anthropos names the mismatch so the loneliness stops feeling like a personal failure.