Compare And Contrast My Culture Vs America

Being able to study in the United States is really a great opportunity that I have ever experienced. Since many international students have value the importance of studying overseas, especially in the States, I learned much knowledge of how others’ culture tends to work. Besides from housing numerous kind of esteemed places for learning, America also is a place that cultural exchanges is apt to happen among the locals and international students. Based on my experience, there are some differences and similarities of how my culture views time as compared to American. First and foremost, back in my home country, I used to do one thing at a time. Although, most of my friends were able to do several tasks at a time, I was not capable to work like them. When I was a child, my parents always told me to be highly organized. In fact. I realized that it is an efficient way to work because almost in many occasions I get things done when I focus doing …show more content…
Engle (2005) points out that “Low-income countries have cultures, in general, in which the value of time is relatively low” (p.1). In other words, they do not value time as important as how other culture do. Eventually, time will always end up being waste by doing something unproductive. While it is true that I often waste my time waiting for the late bus to arrive to go to school and I dislike it very much, in America, buses rarely happen being off the schedule as shown in the template. As a result, invariably my plans work without hustle. For instance, there was a day which required me to be a part-time worker for a running event and I needed to be at the place early in the morning to make some preparations before the event started. If the bus driver did not care much about time, I would definitely not able to be there on time, thus would give poor impression for my