Foriegn Students

Sitting in my speech class last year I noticed something that was different from any class I was taking at the time or any other time. It was not the teacher or her teaching style. I observed the difference when I looked around the classroom at my peers. The students in my class were very diverse. The class was made up of freshmen through seniors and also three or four middle-aged persons. Yet, that was …

…Because many Americans enjoy being alone and independent, they maybe perceived as cold, self-centered and lonely by foreigners. These are few stereotypes that I feel are played out and experienced by foreign exchange students in an American classroom. Even though I never could experience these stereotypes as a foreigner would because they are of normal culture to me, I feel the stereotypes are not degrading in anyway. The stereotypes just reflect a difference in culture.