The Culture Of England At Fresno State

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,

It is a term that has dominated the media; from Halloween costumes to NFL mascots, headlines across the nation blare the words: “cultural appropriation.” Yet, many still are not quite sure what the term means. To put it simply, cultural appropriation is the exploitation of a culture that is not one’s own.

Through travelling, I have developed an interest in understanding new people around me. Travelling helps me practice and achieve my desire to understand other people’s perspectives to build better relations with them. UC Davis has a great community inside the school; however, outside the town of Davis it is difficult to find a community to connect with. The isolation within this town is not beneficial in helping me understand those within the university as well around it. Many students are from the state of California, which does not invite new viewpoints and brings together like-minded individuals. Studying in a new state will allow me to open my mindset and also expose myself to new perspectives to help me connect to more people around the world.

In America culture children are told if they do what they are supposed to do, no more no less, they will get what they want in life. That everything in life is easy and fair to people. This new generation has been called Millennials. Millennials are people who were born between the years 1982-2000 (United States Census Bureau). And from these ideas in American culture nowadays colleges have been changing in the last hundred years. The term “coddling” has been used to describe this trend in American college culture (Lukianoff and Haidt). By definition coddling means to treat in an indulgent or overprotective way, which is what has exactly been happening on college campuses across America (Lukianoff and Haidt). But before I go into too much detail about the coddling we must first understand the history of college culture. College culture is the combination of language, behavior, values, and philosophy that are part of a college’s environment. It's the unspoken rules, that college students learn from to fit into college life. College cultures can differ from campus to campus, but there are some similarities between them all.

When we think about American culture today, we usually think about the 4th of July, barbecuing, Donald Trump and football.We have centered our culture around ourselves and have not given much thought about the good of our country like our founders did when they wanted to avoid a tyrannical leader. In United States history, we have changed our culture due to given circumstances and becoming the “World’s Leading Power”, that we did not have to face the struggles that the colonists had to go through. Those struggles in the 1700’s had shaped American cultures and what they valued.

Yet even with this large of a celebration occurring on our home soil, there will still be students that spend spring break in the Bahamas, a summer in France or a semester in Peru. These are all, of course, great and necessary experiences for building an understanding of the world as a global citizen. But I also extend the challenge to be an American citizen as

Around 300,000 American students are able to partake in studying abroad each year (Klebnikov, Sergei). With over 7 billion people spread throughout the world we may think that experiencing places in our own county is seemingly impossible. However, today we have so many opportunities to travel the world as young people. Iowa State University has focused on giving students of all different backgrounds the ability to go out and experience the world.

Both Native American culture and Colonial American culture, expressed strong beliefs in a divine creator, or creators.

Every year there are around 435,000 international students enrolled in universities around the UK (UKCISA). Studying abroad for a lot of these students is a privilege, however it can be a stressful experience for various reasons. There are plenty of challenges, other than language barrier, that these students face, like major culture shock, homesickness, and financial difficulties.

Colleges all over the United States have a variety of foreign language programs, cultural events, and study abroad programs to help American students have a better understanding of other cultures, languages, and geographical landmarks. Each of these elements are very distinctive to one’s every day life. Languages, cultures, and geographical landmarks distinguish one’s characteristics. An individual’s characteristics define their human identity and their purpose in life. Apart from one’s daily life, others display their characteristics on social media whether it is their religion, beliefs, morals, or personality to visually express how one feels about their own human identity. Today’s modern society connects with other countries mainly by social media, but does not get a full understanding of how others around the world go about his or her daily agenda. College students throughout the United States have various different ways to apply the American culture to other countries by arranging the same types of programs in colleges around the world.

Karen Halttunen is currently a professor of U.S. cultural and intellectual history at the University of Southern California. She has previously taught at the University of California Davis and Northwestern University after receiving her B.A. in History and Religious Studies from Brown University in 1973 and her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1979. Halttunen is the author of "Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870" (1982) and "Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination (1998)." She is currently working on a piece focusing on landscape and antiquity in 19th century New England. Her thesis in "Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870" is that, “In an open, urban society, the powerful images of the confidence man and painted woman expressed the deep concern of status-conscious social climbers that they themselves and those around them were “passing” for something they were not” (xv).

The Wessex culture appeared on the Salisbury Plain soon after the Beaker people. The date must have been about 1700 B.C. Like the Beakers, they were a highly organized and industrious people, but perhaps less belligerent. There graves contained fewer daggers and bows and more ornaments. There was evidence that the Wessex folk were concerned less with war than with the arts and enjoyments of peace-trade and the good life. Their chief leaders were so concerned of their people and sternly ruled them. Their toil in mine and field seemed to have made profits which the rulers put to good use in their trading. Only the chieftains were preserved for the afterlife (Hawkins 37).

Additionally, she interviews a student who said, “Oh, I like you so much, they say. But then if I’m in trouble, it’s Oh, I’m so sorry for you, so sorry for you, doesn’t help” (Nathan 75). She elaborates about how in America, the U.S. students have a tendency to only be friends on campus and not obstruct or maintain about their friend’s situations or family matters. In divergence, international students, back in their instinctive countries, their friends just walk in. In relationships of independence and individualism, Americans are continually full of activity.

I got my first taste of Swarthmore when I accidentally stumbled upon The Phoenix. The colorful, informative articles of the publication showed me that Swarthmore is an institution where the desire to learn and grow is embedded in its culture. Immediately, I knew Swarthmore was my top choice. To Swarthmore, learning isn’t something that’s only done in the classroom; people strive to learn everywhere.

“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