Even though there are bunches of research touching upon international students’ intercultural adaptation, little research has touched on Chinese international students’ intercultural adaptation in Northern Florida. In Katherine & Dustin’s Accuracy of the United States regional personality stereotypes, the authors explored whether Americans can accurately describe how personality traits vary across regions of the United States. They presented the analyses documenting the strengths of regional stereotypes and the accuracy of regional stereotypes for each trait separately (Katherine & Dustin, 2010). Regarding to this quantitative research study, in part I, 16 psychology students from Wake Forest University were asked to construct regions
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The findings demonstrated that people agree on regional personality stereotypes and there is at least a kernel of truth to geographic stereotypes. They discovered that regional perceptions of openness to experience and neuroticism were the two most accurate stereotypes. Even though there are several limitations such as the samples were simply based on college students from a southeast university which may decrease the level of accuracy, from the graphs and tables of findings, I still found the possible connections between stereotypes and regions. Northern Florida culture in particular reflects a general stereotype for extraversion, agreeableness, openness, lack of neuroticism and a lack of conscientiousness (2010). If these stereotypes indeed play out in reality, they could become factors that hinder Chinese international students from immersing themselves into campus culture and social interactions. Chinese international students may also have to contend with unfavorable opinions from many of …show more content…
Chinese culture itself has had more than five thousand years’ history and it has developed into the current cultural system marked by the union of three major religions into one—Daoism, Buddhism and Confucianism with Confucianism at the center (Xing Guang, 2013).Confucian philosophy has a strong impact on the Chinese people's viewpoint, way of thinking and behaviors (He, 1996). Confucianism within Chinese religion do not function as separate institution that provide their members an exclusive way to salvation unlike many Western religions. Instead, the purpose is to transmit their tradition of practice and make it available to all, either as individual spiritual techniques or liturgical services to whole communities (Goossaert, 2005). On one hand, Confucianism emphasizes a moral code for governance, family, and individual conduct so to some extent, Chinese culture is authority-oriented and hierarchically structured (Yang, 1995). On the other hand, Chinese people emphasize harmony and unity. These ideas and thought have been influencing Chinese people for over 2,000 years. The notion of harmonious ease is deep-rooted in Chinese people’s values (Xing Guang, 2013) and affects both the student classroom experience and academic expectations of Chinese students studying abroad (L. Shi,
The findings demonstrated that people agree on regional personality stereotypes and there is at least a kernel of truth to geographic stereotypes. They discovered that regional perceptions of openness to experience and neuroticism were the two most accurate stereotypes. Even though there are several limitations such as the samples were simply based on college students from a southeast university which may decrease the level of accuracy, from the graphs and tables of findings, I still found the possible connections between stereotypes and regions. Northern Florida culture in particular reflects a general stereotype for extraversion, agreeableness, openness, lack of neuroticism and a lack of conscientiousness (2010). If these stereotypes indeed play out in reality, they could become factors that hinder Chinese international students from immersing themselves into campus culture and social interactions. Chinese international students may also have to contend with unfavorable opinions from many of …show more content…
Chinese culture itself has had more than five thousand years’ history and it has developed into the current cultural system marked by the union of three major religions into one—Daoism, Buddhism and Confucianism with Confucianism at the center (Xing Guang, 2013).Confucian philosophy has a strong impact on the Chinese people's viewpoint, way of thinking and behaviors (He, 1996). Confucianism within Chinese religion do not function as separate institution that provide their members an exclusive way to salvation unlike many Western religions. Instead, the purpose is to transmit their tradition of practice and make it available to all, either as individual spiritual techniques or liturgical services to whole communities (Goossaert, 2005). On one hand, Confucianism emphasizes a moral code for governance, family, and individual conduct so to some extent, Chinese culture is authority-oriented and hierarchically structured (Yang, 1995). On the other hand, Chinese people emphasize harmony and unity. These ideas and thought have been influencing Chinese people for over 2,000 years. The notion of harmonious ease is deep-rooted in Chinese people’s values (Xing Guang, 2013) and affects both the student classroom experience and academic expectations of Chinese students studying abroad (L. Shi,