When international students come to American campus, due to the different cultural background, they are facing different problems but a universal one is it’s hard to make American friends.
Saskia Bauer is an exchange student from Germany. She said it was easy to adapt the American campus as a German. But Qingyang Li, as an Asian international student who majors in advertising, said it's hard to integrate with her classmates in the group work. She said she did project basically on herself when she studied in her country, but American education focuses more on group work.
Li said she thinks it's lucky for her to get in touch with group work at the college because it's a good way to steel herself. She has to work with others in the future in any case.
However, Bauer and Li have the same difficulty when they are facing the different campus culture.
Even though they both said, American students are very friendly, open-minded and they talk to you first. They think it is difficult to get close or make friends with American students.
Bauer agreed with the opinion that American students care about their private room which makes people hard to get close to them.
Li thinks the biggest barrier for her to make friends with American students is her language. She said she doesn't know what to say to them, and language barrier leads to a result that it's hard to express herself.
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