How Foreign Students Interact With American Students And The Distinctive Type Of Relationships

This review is organized into four sections. The first section discusses the feelings of attachment and sense of belonging of college students. In order to

Hang Yuan (James) Professor Spencer English 0812 April 21st 2016 Essay assignment #1 Final Draft The Gap between International Students and Domestic Students How to make friends with American students? Probably every international student had this question when they first came to the United States. In Rebekah Nathan’s book “My Freshman year,” Nathan exchanges her college professor position back to a college student.

In the article, “Colleges Adapt to New Kinds of Students from Abroad,” Karin Fischer (2011) explains the increase of foreign students in U.S. universities leads to make more problems in campus and how universities are trying to overcome those problems and help foreign students to adapt to campus. Fischer explains the increase of the foreign undergraduate students due to the support from foreign governments. Fischer quotes Wesley Young, the director of services for international students and scholars at the University of California at Davis, to discuss that the increase of foreign undergraduate students especially requires more care and help than graduate students. While older students know what they need to do and what to do in U.S. university,

Making friends on U.S. campuses could be challenging for those who are an international students. It’s not easy to make friends with American students because they tend to be independent and keep distance from others. In Rebekah Nathan’s book “My Freshman Year”, Nathan claims that social life and developing friendships on U.S. campuses is difficult for international students because American students would make them feel uncomfortable and invisible at times. Nathan’s argues that American students don’t put any effort in talking to students from different race, ethnic, and background. International students are usually on their own or be with their friends since Americans wouldn’t make friends with them. In nathan’s book, she discusses about the

Grey lights filled the already cold room. The constant beeps and clicks from the machines against the wall scraped away at the silence that hardened the air. Every once in a while the beeps would get faster, and then fall back down to a steady, rhythmic pace. A small, frail girl lay motionless in the center of a white hospital bed. Her mouth propped slightly open with various tubes running down her throat, and hands connected to the machines through an elaborate arrangement of cords and needles. The warmth had already escaped her body, and to the touch, she was just as cold as the room. Curled up tightly in a chair next to her, I sat patiently and held her cold hand, as I spoke softly into her ear. I never thought I would have ended up here, in a small room with my mom, next to the body of my dying grandma. But I was.

(“Wild Child”). It could be difficult for a transfer student to make friends just by moving from a city to another within the country. When someone has to move from U.S. to England, it is even harder, because he or she not only has to deal with getting used to a new environment but also has to deal with the conflicts between two different cultures. In the movie, there were examples of concepts such as relationship between many type of groups, culture difference between two countries, and stereotype. “Relationship are the interconnection, or interdependence, between two or more people that function to achieve some goal.

When a young adult gets to go to college or university, they stray a new path in their lives away from their parents and into a good taste of freedom on campus life. It is here where you try to find your identity and seek significant others to construct your daily life but it can be through those same friends that you have common interests that tensions can occur with others who are in different sub cultures than you.

In her book, My Freshmen Year: What a Professor Learned About Becoming a Student, Rebekah Nathan accounts her experience as a teacher turned student and her finding on how American students and international students relate to one another. In the fourth chapter of the book, “How Other Sees Us”, Nathan evaluates US college students’ opinions on other cultures based on interviews with international students and their experience interacting with US-born college students. Nathan, through the interviews, portrays American students as oblivious to the world scene, lacking or misusing information about other countries and other cultures. Although her main focus is to expose the shocking way most international students perceive Americans, Nathan also

There are several different positive and unique aspects of intercultural relationships. Intercultural relationships allow individuals to understand other people of different cultures, ethnicities, gender and etc. It is interesting understanding other peoples beliefs as well as how they have lived there life’s. A positive aspect of intercultural relationships is the difference between the two people. I think it is interesting learning how other people think and how they were brought up. When you are in an intercultural relationship you get to understand how that person feels about certain situations that they have been through. You get to learn who that person truly is.

In Nathan’s article, she keeps her principal focus on how foreign students interact with American students and the distinctive type of relationships that they build. It is quite strange to some of the foreign student’s that Nathan has interviewed about how non-committed American students are to the foreign students because American 's students do not socialize as much, and tends to spend more time alone. Furthermore, they will make small talk rather than being close friends or let it evolve into more. At that point, Nathan turns her center towards the difference between a relationship and a friendship between American and foreign students. She also discusses with different foreign students with different background and how they interact with their American roommates, and the relationship that they bond. In addition, American student’s family is a distinct subject from school but for international students, it is something naturally integrated into their social lives, which is why they care so much about their parents (Nathan 73). Furthermore, she discusses how many foreign students make comments about how different students look and the lack of attention that they give their professor compared to in their home country. Nevertheless, the social life and making companions in American can be quite troublesome for any foreign students. However, once you become acquainted with American students and get to be

Most young people believe that studying in a different country is a privilege because they are able to experience other cultures, and learn from them. However, in the United States it is not as good as they thought because International students have much more pressure being in this country, and sometimes they cannot handle it very well. Therefore, in the United States the life of an international student is very unfavorable if people compare it to the life of an American student. International students have to learn a new language to study, they cannot work while studying, and their tuition is much more expensive.

“In 2006 to 2007, according to the data compiled by the Institute of International Education, 582,984 students from all over the world were enrolled in American colleges and universities in a wide range of fields” (Carter, Paragraph 2, 2008). The United States has the highest number of students who are coming to study abroad than any other countries. Each year, the number of international students coming to the United States to obtain degrees is increasing by thousands, and home countries of these students are primarily India, China and Korea, all located in the whole different continent. But what are the motives of students who are crossing the sea to study? Their goal of studying abroad is to experience diversity and to adapt attitudes

This results in few friends and international students tending to isolate themselves or keeping to a group of the same language. Depression comes into effect for those that cannot find peers of the same language. Therefore being forced to have very or no friend which leads to loneliness and depression. The barrier between international students and English speaking students create obstacles that impede the building of interpersonal relationships with fellow students. International students not fluent with the English language experience difficulties that students who are fluent do not. They difficulties include needing extra time to read assigned reading, difficulties understanding class lectures and discussions, and difficulties communicating concerns and view points (Tam. K, Donghyuck. L, & Huang. L, 2007) International students tend to disconnect from their previous social life and find new connections to develop new social Support networks in their new host country (Tam. K, Donghyuck. L, & Huang. L, 2007). Pedersen (1991), point out that a loss of social support as an impact on the psychological well-being of an international student. The unpleasant experience of forming new support networks in host country leads to feeling of disappointment and discontent. Overtime, these feeling lead to social isolation (Mallinckrodt and Leong 1992).

Leadership styles have evolved with mankind since the beginning. Tribal leaders in the past were responsible for almost every facet of their clan’s well-being, including basic life necessities. As times evolved leaders took on more of a political role and the ruled kingdoms and became responsible for their civilizations continued existence. These leaders demanded loyalty from their subjects as their empire’s very existence relied on it. In today’s corporate landscapes, leadership demands innovation as this is the life source which propels a company forward and guarantees its existence in the future. The ability to engage and captivate a workforce is only something true

The profit and loss account is one of the annual accounts and main financial statements. It contains figures on the amount of profit or loss the business made over a financial year. It will also contain information on how the profit or loss arose. It’s purpose is to show how profitable the business is (If revenue exceeds expenses) or how unprofitable it is (if expenses exceed revenue). For this reason they are particularly important for generally showing an overview of the business success level during the period shown. They are also important because banks usually like to see a profit and loss account before lending to a business. The profit and loss account is made use of by internal stakeholders such as managers and managing directors for making operational decisions and planning future budgets for example. It is also particularly useful to external stakeholders such as shareholders and potential investors, this is because they must make most of their investment decisions on the figures that businesses publish and so the account allows them to compare the profitability and risk of different investments. Investment appraisal techniques like ROCE can be used with the profit and loss account to help compare the businesses to others.