I met some of Erik's friends yesterday and found more differences and similarities between Chinese young people and the American ones.
They really speak up. A boy asked us things about China.Obviously, what he knew about China was not up-dated. At the beginning of our conversations, he asked about the Tian'an men square issue and whether the Chinese were allowed to keep large amount of private properties. I was not affended at all. On the contrary, i'd like to communcate with foreigners on subjects like that, learn from the past and tell them that China is making progress politically. The boy's cousin asked us whether we were only allowed to have one baby each family and thought it was crazy.Instead of answering her, i asked her what if there were1.3 billion people in America. We all laughed and she said it made sense.
In the party, they drunk and danced.Typical American! Work hard,play harder.It seemed that they were busy enjoying themselves and didn't bother to care others. In fact, they stood in our shoes all the time. V told us helped ourselves and didn't have to eat up things in the plate in case we were not used to the American food. The Americans are not the kind of people who own considerable wealth and care nothing about others. They just refuse to lose themselves.They always know who they are and what they want. In this respect, they win my respect.
I've talked with many American students and it changed my view on them. They read a lot and are never afraid of speaking up.Back in China, I didn't get the chance to know what an American student's daily life was like, except from the movies which was not reliable resources at all.