Host family

Most of the students will live in a host family when they are studying in US. The host family programs suppose to provide an American home experience for international students from other countries. Most of them have the experience with the host family. Some of the host family is bad; some of the host family is good. The international students cannot choose host family, the organization of the host family assign the host randomly. When I arrived in US, I live in my uncle home. I stayed in there for one and a half year. I feel like I am not in them. The family has too many rules for me to follow. I need to sleep and turn off all the light at ten. Apart from these, I feel like I am in a jail. I have no social life because I don’t have a car and the distance from my home to school by car is more than half an hour. That’s the reason why I moved out. One of my friends is living in a host family, and she said her host family is so nice. I moved to her place and lived with host family for half a year. The host family is really nice and they are from Taiwan. The hosts always asked us to have meal, and always afraid we were hungry. He helped us to sweep and clean up the floor. All in all, I have a nice and remarkable experience with my host family.

International students face discrimination problem

Everyone should be born equal but there is discrimination in this society such as age, social class, sexual and race discrimination. Discriminate hurts everyone. Discrimination refers to a group of people that is given different treatment then the general population, for personal reasons unrelated to their merits, but rather some other property , such a race, sex, religion, social class, age, health status. Discrimination based on personal qualities. They have been marginalized. Racial discrimination is one of the crucial problems for international students. Because they are discriminated against and due to their exclusion of mainstream society, it is easy to lose the opportunities to enjoy the college life in United States. For example, it is harder to get into the position of the student union because most of the student union is local students. Everyone should respect the others. International students may feel discriminate and isolate by the local students in US because they have different culture and different background. Most of the international students will make friends with other international students that in the same motherland because they have chat topics and they feel security with them. Vise verse, the local students will more likely to make friends with local students. Because most of the students in the universities are American, international students are hard to make friends with international students. One of the best ways is to join some events in the international student office. Apart from this, they can go to church or fellowship to make friends because those people are friendly.

International students face culture differences

International student may face culture differences in United States. They may experience some kind of culture shock. America is country that has personal freedom which everyone seems to want but the international students may think this country is too open mind and hard to adjust their mind. They need to accept and understand the culture of America. For example, they need to understand that a simple “how are you?” is only greeting. It is just like saying “good morning or hi.”. Most of the international students come to America after their high school life. In China, they need to rise their hand to ask the teacher to have the permission of going to the restroom. The students in China are more respectful and politeness to the teachers. In community college of the America, I had seen some of the Chinese classmates ask for the permission of going to the restroom. The students in America have a better relationship with their teachers. The American students have large collection of friends and their groups of friends changes over time. The American has less interested in the past and look forward. They eye on near-term future. They are easily to forget the past and goes on. These kinds of culture differences may be the obstacles of making American friends in America. These may affect their personality and the views of things. To deal with this, the international students can make friends with other international students or try to accept the American culture.