As an international student from China, I really like the diversity here. In my eyes, we have a fantastic community - IST: our people have different cultures and backgrounds. During the past one year, this diversified climate always stimulates my desire to learn , to communicate and to share with others.
Culture is the essence of a nationality. In culture, there are spirits, beliefs and legends. I took culture as my interest since I was a kid and I always regard learning different cultures as one of my most enjoyable activities. I would like to know what makes a nationality unique and what they believe in. From the image below, we can observe the different aspects regarding to a culture. Among those I prefer the aspects of art, street life and architecture.
Graduate school provides me a great environment to know people from other countries. Implicitly, this also gives me good opportunities to learn different cultures. I have made friends from Thailand, Korea, America, and Europe. When chatting with them, we made many funny moments, result from the differences among cultures. For example, American student always cannot understand why college students in China rarely go to bars. Actually, they are very surprised when hearing this. Then, I need to explain to them the reasons, related to Chinese policies and Chinese education. Through this explanation, both of us can get a better understanding about not only the cultures, but also the people and the countries. I like this free and interactive communication style and it really brought me a lot of happiness.
Culture is the essence of a nationality. In culture, there are spirits, beliefs and legends. I took culture as my interest since I was a kid and I always regard learning different cultures as one of my most enjoyable activities. I would like to know what makes a nationality unique and what they believe in. From the image below, we can observe the different aspects regarding to a culture. Among those I prefer the aspects of art, street life and architecture.
Graduate school provides me a great environment to know people from other countries. Implicitly, this also gives me good opportunities to learn different cultures. I have made friends from Thailand, Korea, America, and Europe. When chatting with them, we made many funny moments, result from the differences among cultures. For example, American student always cannot understand why college students in China rarely go to bars. Actually, they are very surprised when hearing this. Then, I need to explain to them the reasons, related to Chinese policies and Chinese education. Through this explanation, both of us can get a better understanding about not only the cultures, but also the people and the countries. I like this free and interactive communication style and it really brought me a lot of happiness.
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