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America Vs China Research Paper

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The USA and China are one of the largest countries in the world with more than 9.3 million square meters. There are a lot of interesting parallels between China and America. Both China and America emphasize the importance of their national identity and values. Moreover, they both have a strong military presence and the people in these two countries have a great respect for their militaries. However, when I moved from China to America, there are apparent changes in my education before going to college and after going to college, such as the size of classes, students’ study stress and teaching styles. The first difference is the size of classes. Due to the high population in China, the classes are large-scaled. There are approximately 70 people in a class. When I was in my high school in China, I had so many classmates. Thus, providing an individualistic learning pattern was impossible and there was no time for everyone to demonstrate their personal thoughts in class freely. Unlike China, the population of the USA is just one-tenth of it. Therefore, when I study in the U.S., I find that the size of the classes is much smaller than China. For example, my theater class only has 20 students. There is a good …show more content…

In the USA, teachers focus more on the practical skills. In contrast, Chinese teachers are emphasizing more on the academic part. Let’s take a science subject as an example. In my chemistry class in the USA, my professor gives me more opportunities to do experiments. Now I fall in love with doing experiments because it is so funny. Thus, I am so happy to have many lab hours this semester. However, when I was in China in my high school, I had more lecture hours because my Chinese chemistry teacher liked to spend more time in teaching the theories. She taught the theories carefully and clearly, so I learned the theories very well. But in fact, a lot of theoretical knowledge would never be helpful in real

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