Topic > Impact of Cultural Differences on International Students

Globalization is an inevitable trend in today's era. Nowadays people have more and more opportunities to interact with the whole world. Students study abroad to gain more advanced knowledge. Travelers travel all over the world to enrich their experiences. And even a small company begins to reflect on how to approach international trade. The more interactions that occur mean more information exchanges. More information exchanges result in more knowledge and wisdom being shared. As more and more knowledge and wisdom are shared, humans walk forward together. However, what cannot be ignored is that, at the same time as people interact around the world, cultural differences emerge. As an international student, I want to discuss the effect of cultural differences on international students in this article based on my experiences and research. So what is the effect of cultural differences? Is this good for international students? Or does this have a negative impact for international students? Why is this important to people? Some people are of the opinion that the effect of cultural differences is the same as culture shock: “the personal disorientation a person may feel when experiencing an unfamiliar lifestyle due to immigration or visiting a new country, a movement between social environments, or simply a journey to another kind of life” (Macionis and Linda Gerber 54). This idea is absolutely good. Because most of the time, cultural differences bring people, such as international students, a lot of inconvenience. Let's demonstrate this from two aspects: daily life and study. From daily life, say, international students like me can't easily understand what people are talking about, so they can't participate in daily conversation in... middle of the paper. .....but it is important and necessary for people to know more deeply the effects of cultural differences in order to answer these questions. Only when people know more about these effects will they be able to discover effective ways to help international students adapt their daily lives and study successfully. Furthermore, only when people know more about these effects, they will be able to identify the special values ​​and personalities of international students. Works Cited Hoover, Eric. "An immigrant learns two new languages." World of writing. New York: Longman, 2011. 118-120. Print.Pickup, Diane. “The Shock of the Strange, the Shock of the Familiar: Learning from Studying Abroad.” Journal of the National Collegiate Honor Council 1 (2000): 75-83. Print.Macionis, John and Linda Gerber. "Chapter 3 - Culture." Sociology. 7th edition ed. Toronto, ON: Pearson Canada Inc., 2010. 54-55. Press