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Siyuan Chen

English 101

Wendy Schoener

Assignment#1

9-12-2014

Worldliness and Worldview

Teaching is a work to teacher, but responsibility of teacher is make student be better. Rebekan Nathan was a professor of anthropology at Northern Arizona University and author of Voyages and she had spend most of her professional life living overseas in a village location. She prepared to wrote a book“My Freshman Year” that is about college life at AnyU, so she went to AnyU as a student and lived in the college with international students and native American’s students .

Nathan reports of international students at her school and she was interested of some question American students actually asked of international students. How international student see Americans. When she interview of some international students that she knew Americans didn’t know many things from other countries. According to“My Freshman Year”by Rebekan Nathan,” Japanese said“ really, they don’t know very much about other countries, but maybe it’s just because a country like Japan is so far away. Japanese probably don’t know about the Middle East. Sometimes, student keep asking about ninja”s. UAE’s student said“American students are nice, but they need to stop being so ignorant about other countries and other cultures”.And Chinese said“Americans know very little about China or its culture. Most people think China is still very poor and very communist-controlled, with no freedom”. Last one Malaysia students said“ i tell people that i am Muslim, and they take for granted that i’m an Arab. How can they not realize that not all Muslims are Arabs when they have many Muslims here who are American”? (85). That all things are describe international students what American are in their eyes. Americans know few culture about each countries and the curiosity push Americans ask question to international students about they country and cultural when they meet them. Learning cultural by another countries is a good thing, but always ask some surface question can not be a good thing. The reason for International students come to American that is best country and has best education right now. When Americans want to know some cultural about their country, it might be proud of international student who also like to talk to them. But for some international student who have been American more than 3 years are not. This part of student don’t know like to talk their cultural with Americans. Suck as Chinese, Americans always ask to them“ is China poor right now? Is China freedom? Is TaiWan belong to China? Such many things about that.” For a Chinese student who might be answer the same question for long time as same as how long they have been American.International student cannot understand why Americans do not use computer to help them find the answer if they really want know.

In my opinion, Americans believe they are in the best country and English is most popular language in the world. Actually, that is a only reason why i come to American, because it is truth. Every time i have a new American friends and I have to tell them my country like i already said in last paragraph. When more and more Americans ask me the same questions, in which i’m feeling bad, but i cannot tell them what i’m thinking, because it is rude. It is not a good way to be a friend. I like some American cultural more then my own cultural of China, such as NBA, single, and movie. I would like to realize them from internet and most of information are true in the internet. I think it is happening to others international students.

In her boos “My Freshman Year”, Nathan talk to us the story that happening in the college, and we can realize what is American student thinking and what is international student thinking. Undeniable, different country have different cultural and that influence the student. If Americans who are try to know more information about others countries and keeping to learning their own cultural, also if international student can learning American cultural and spread cultural of their country to Americans or other international students. That might be the best way to improve everybody and country to be better.