Should Vietnamese Overseas Students Come Home Or Not?

This was published May 22, 2017. I accessed this website on March 20, 2018. This website allows you to find information about Studying Abroad (“Benefits”). This article is about the benefits you will gain while studying abroad (“Benefits”). “It will change your life. You will come back being a new person” (“Benefits”). Study abroad influences career paths and self-confidence of students. While traveling overseas, you will learn more about yourself than you think. Some of the lifetime benefits you will earn from this experience are “intercultural, academic, and personal growth development” (“Benefits”). Studying abroad will help you become a leader. It will help you have a better understanding of other cultures and have a better understanding of yourself. If you study abroad and learn other cultures you will respect your own more and want to carry on your

Asian Americans may also be discouraged to go into pre-collegiate teaching because they feel a sense of personal inadequacy. In the United States, school is seen as a social service mission, where teachers, who are primarily female, are tasked to teach students, especially those from working-class and immigrant backgrounds, middle-class values. Chinese tradition, in contrast, has different views on schooling. This tradition brings schooling to the local community with preexisting hierarchies. Teachers, who are primarily male, maintain this status quo by upholding strict intellectual standards determined by elite members of society. These teachers are revered as experts—scholars who screen local school children to see if they are capable of

Poor education in school and no access to money is no excuse to give up because if one does not have an adequate education, they cannot qualify for a degree that will potentially elevate their socioeconomic status. Born into a struggler family infested with homelessness, destitution, and poverty, I chose to educate myself outside of the classroom because my school failed to provide an adequate education to be successful in today’s world. I chose to study abroad in France, which was a complete learning experience in itself. Despite being in a struggler school, an exchange student foundation, American Field Service (AFS), presented the idea of studying abroad. They offered anyone who wanted to embark on this once in a lifetime journey a full scholarship of $15,000. Initially, I thought that it was too good to be true, but I ended up being the only student in my school that went abroad for a year. After experiencing an entirely different way of life, I recognized the historical differences of

I immigrated to America with my family five years ago and received an education that is impossible to gain in China. Some may not know this, but access to college is very competitive and one’s social status plays a significant role to China’s economy. Therefore, my parents made an very important decision, which was to leave my mother country and step in a foreign country that is America. Here, I am able to experience mountains of obstacles and learn how to solve these complex life cases.

In this current modern era of our time, it can be seen that an enormous number of students prefer to study overseas in Australian universities. For the purpose of this essay, “overseas study” refers to the act of travelling beyond your country to receive tertiary education. There are numerous reasons as to why universities in Australia are popular. Students may choose Australia universities for the high quality education system, which leads to better job opportunities. Moreover, the student friendly living conditions within a diverse multi-cultural environment.

“The number of Americans studying abroad has tripled over the last 20 years, but, still, fewer than 10 percent of college students study overseas during undergraduate years”. (Kristof) The ideals America has set in response to a changing world has prompted fear in its citizens, who are now unwilling to chase their desire to explore a new land. While the rest of the world has shown an opposite reaction to a changing world as, “Three times as many foreigner’s study in America”. (Kristof) American citizens has become reluctant to chase the desire all humans have to experience something new and this is becoming a problem as “growing numbers of seniors will finance retirement by moving to cheaper countries like Mexico, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica”. (Kristof) Americans that fear traveling to another place to study instead choose to take a language class for four years in their educational institution. “It makes in since to study Spanish in college… it’s more effective to move to Bolivia, study or get a job and fall in love”. (Kristof) It has been proven time and time again that people can learn through a logos path of teaching such as those universities adopt, but if you can learn something through a pathos path of teaching such as moving to another country to study its culture; you will make a much stronger and lasting connections in the brain. “I have a one-question test than people who have lived abroad do better on than those who studied in a classroom… In a foreign language you’ve studied, how do you say doorknob”.

After about thirty years of fighting in the Vietnam War, the country was finally united again but under communist ruling subsequent to the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The country was later on declared a communist country on July 2, 1976. When the war ended, it caused many issues with the Vietnamese citizens and society. Homes, villages, towns, and the life they knew was completely different and in ruins. “I was about twelve when the war ended. My parents were saving money to move to America and in 1982 we moved. My whole life was changed.”(Nguyen.) Many Vietnamese citizens became refugees and fled the country to get away from all the tension and harm that

Being a difficult decision, Ha and her family are trying to decide whether or not to leave Vietnam. The first reason is the her mom wants to go because she wants her and her children to be on a safe country (45). She says, “I have lived in the North. At first, not much will happen...” she is showing that if they move to the North, they will not be safe either. Another reason that Ha wants to stay is because in the morning, brother Khoi showed her his baby chicks and said, “No matter what mother decides, we are not to leave. I must protect my chick and your papaya tree,” (46). One more reason Ha’s mom wants to leave, is that in the kitchen, when Ha is cutting the sweet potato, hemother says, “You deerve to grow up where you don’t have to worry

The decision to leave the country is very difficult for many reasons. One reason being that maybe there prisoner of war father returns after they leave. Which is shown when Brother Khoi says, “ What if father comes home and finds his family gone.” (Pg. 44) Another reason is shown when Brother Quang says,” without honor, without dignity.”(Pg.44) This shows they don’t want to be seen as cowardly by other Vietnamese people and leave when Vietnam is such and strong willed and honored country. A final reason could be just the struggles of leaving the country. Like trying to buy a home in a new country and trying to learn a new language as a refugee. All of these reasons show that this is a very tough decision for the family.

For my family and natural resources paper, I decided to delve deeper into my family’s history and focus on their experience post-Vietnam War following their migration to the United States, particularly on my father’s personal experience considering that natural resources likely had a substantial role in shaping him into the person he is today.

Fast forward 10 years, and I see myself sitting around a table with people from nay countries and endeavoring to reach a resolution. Although this career in international is important, I hope to balance my life between my career and other meaningful life experiences like developing deep companionships, travel, culture and giving back to the community. Because preparing for a meaningful life will result in preparing for a more focused and successful career. I enjoy being able to challenge new circumstances and therefore, it is my hope that my undergraduate education will offer me the opportunity to enhance my academic knowledge and qualifications and a variety of experiences both with the confines of the university and outside of the university.

Being in the military and civilian organizations are both rewarding and prideful. It shows sacrifice, pride for your country, and helps students to mature before really taking on the world and what it has to offer. With all of those points in mind, students should be required to serve at least one year in the military before enrolling in a college. Opposers will counter-back by saying that the army is dangerous and puts people in harm’s way, but supporters would disagree and say that it teaches kids how to stand up for the country and to do what is right.

In 1975, the moment in which communist domination took place in Saigon, they confiscated innocents’ assets, killed and raped women and children, and forced men to work more than twelve hours a day without salary. Those frightening experience motivated many thousands and thousands Vietnamese people to flee to many countries around the world. The refugees crossed the oceans by boats, or crossed other countries’ boundaries, and begged the host countries’ humanities for immigration acceptance. America, one of the most humane countries, accepted Vietnamese refugees to live and work legally in their country. They-the Vietnamese

Education is a never-ending learning process that has always been a piece of our life. As education is a building block in our lives, we are eager to put profoundly into our education. Good education will lead us to the bright future. With the fast advancement of public opinion, we have entered an era of information explosion which the necessity of studying abroad has turned into a developing pattern among youth. Most of the students feel that studying abroad is better than studying in local universities. As the saying goes, “the grass always looks greener on the other side of fence.” In this way, I believe that considering abroad have extraordinary points of benefits.

“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