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 not the diversity that I found so differentiating it was that most of the freshmen through seniors were foreign exchange students. Those students came from countries such as Malaysia, China, Russia, and Asia. I had never really engaged in much conversation with a person from a foreign country, but this was speech class so communication with my peers was a must. I admit before I had a chance to talk to the exchange students I was guilty of a common practice. I was guilty of stereotyping. In my mind I had already assumed that the exchange students probably did not speak or understand our language very well and were going to be very shy towards their American peers. A couple of days into the class it turned out that my stereotype assumptions were not entirely true. As most stereotypes tend to be.
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Approximate Word count = 6707
Approximate Pages = 27 (250 words per page double spaced)
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