Social Life And Making Friends On Friends Case Study

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Social life and making friends on campuses In Nathan’s article, my freshman year, she keeps her primary focus on how international students interact with American students and the distinctive type of relationships that they build. It is quite strange to international students from Japan, Germany, Korea, England, and China that Nathan has interviewed about how non-committed American students are to the international students. The reason they think “non-committed” is because American students do not socialize as much, and have a tendency to spend more time alone. Also, according to her article, most American students will make small talk rather than being close friends or let it develop into more. Even from …show more content…

The main reason is that they can relate to international students regarding staying connected with friends and families and understanding the hardship that they face. Even in my Ethnographic Observation, I found a similar result where American students are not as interested in becoming friends with international students due to their cultural differences, such as staying connected with families and having a formal and extended conversation. Even when I was doing my Ethnographic observation, I was quite surprised to see the amount of students who hangs out with people from their cultural background. Even the research which was done by the Baruch College professor shows that one is every three international students do not have any American friends. I think for international students the way to solve the problem is not to be embarrassed about being different and find a hobby that American and international student has in common. Also, the best way to build up friendship and relationship with one another is to wait and look for the right person to become friends with because there are American students out there who are eager to become friends with international students to learn about different

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