International Students in America
Travelling to a different place and experiencing different culture, language and traditions is a unique experience and everyone should try it. It gives you a better view of the world, enhancing your knowledge and widening our perspective. Keeping the same reason in mind, students go around the world to study in different countries to experience different culture and life styles. But, in this journey there are lot of obstacles or anti-intellectualism which constrain their full capacity or freedom and set boundaries for them. Some of these are difference in education system, different language and also religion.
Anti-intellectualism is not the problem itself like culture change, language or different educational but the extra effort one has to put to succeed because of the effects of …show more content…
A world with different type of people, people speaking different language than you and live there life differently. This uniqueness of a different country creates excitement and nervousness. After reaching to America the struggle begins from the airport, where everyone speaks English and there are a lot of students who come to America just to learn English. English is the primary language in the United States, from university lectures to just talking to a person it is used everywhere. Being the most commonly spoken language it becomes the bridge for interacting with domestic people for international students and travelers but international students struggle with it a lot. Imagine going to China and knowing no Chinese, it will make you feel so handicapped because all the sign boards and documents are in Chinese and you just cannot understand it. This language barrier restricts a lot of students from their full ability as they cannot understand the professors well in the lectures, and hence they cannot perform well during the
Travelling to a different place and experiencing different culture, language and traditions is a unique experience and everyone should try it. It gives you a better view of the world, enhancing your knowledge and widening our perspective. Keeping the same reason in mind, students go around the world to study in different countries to experience different culture and life styles. But, in this journey there are lot of obstacles or anti-intellectualism which constrain their full capacity or freedom and set boundaries for them. Some of these are difference in education system, different language and also religion.
Anti-intellectualism is not the problem itself like culture change, language or different educational but the extra effort one has to put to succeed because of the effects of …show more content…
A world with different type of people, people speaking different language than you and live there life differently. This uniqueness of a different country creates excitement and nervousness. After reaching to America the struggle begins from the airport, where everyone speaks English and there are a lot of students who come to America just to learn English. English is the primary language in the United States, from university lectures to just talking to a person it is used everywhere. Being the most commonly spoken language it becomes the bridge for interacting with domestic people for international students and travelers but international students struggle with it a lot. Imagine going to China and knowing no Chinese, it will make you feel so handicapped because all the sign boards and documents are in Chinese and you just cannot understand it. This language barrier restricts a lot of students from their full ability as they cannot understand the professors well in the lectures, and hence they cannot perform well during the