Rebekah Nathan's As Other See Us

American students have been such a question mark for the international students, their way of living and thinking is way different than any international student and this is noticeable. Students from all over the world notice a difficulty in dealing with the Americans and mentally understand them. Therefore, Rebekah Nathan argues that in her article “As Other See Us” and discusses the differences between the American and the international students. Moreover, she uses different evidence based on students from different backgrounds and cultures. Nathan goes over opinions and stories that happens with the international students in the US and what they think about these situation, which they considers weird in the eyes of the international students.

They only care about themselves and they do every thing for themselves. Perhaps they gain that from how they use to live as they grow up and from the custom that every eighteen years old American should leave his or her parents home, starts his or her own life and here the story repeats again and again. This life style teaches the Americans that no matter who they will be friend with and who they will meet, they will leave one day and they will be nothing in their life, exactly in the same way they left their parents home who supposed to be their most beloved and important ones in their life. “International students saw ‘individualism’ and ‘independence’ as characteristic not only of roommate interactions but of relations with family and friends as well.” (Nathan 73). Therefore, American students apply this way of living even in the college life, which most of the international students do not have this kind of hard abundance. “’Americans have a lot of independence. At eighteen in Mexico, I can’t think of living by myself, but we think united is better, for both family ties and for expenses.’” (Nathan