[Applause]
English is not my first language perhaps
that qualified me as an international
student here in the US however and where
I’m from the turn International applies
to Jose whose first language is in
Chinese interesting cultural distinction
isn’t it
ten years ago I first recognized to turn
cultural identity well I went to a trip
in Europe I spent a month in Germany and
learned to say the phrase ek Hasina I
come from China I was surprised to the
bread and butter served at breakfast to
potato and meat for lunch and pasta for
dinner
there was no rice and I had to eat with
a fork and a knife instead of chopsticks
that was the first time I recognized the
differences between my world and a world
of someone else after this first
experience of somewhere traveling abroad
I began to travel more I love exploring
new ideas and learning cultural values
from people for all over the world
between the age of 7 to 17 I traveled
across 20 different countries and four
continent I was able to discover
different cultural values that
influenced me and drove miles away from
the Chinese traditional views and
multiple occasions people will ask me
where are you from and after hearing my
answers to respond you don’t see in
Chinese to me I realized that influence
that I gained from foreign cultures has
drove my values away from what people
expected as being the traditional
Chinese standard too many the
integration of different cultures or
globalization is considered a
destruction to localism and cost the
loss of an individual’s local identity
such concern is valid as I discovered
from my own traveling experiences but
moreover when I started to attend
international school in southern China
since sixth grade
I transferred from a Chinese local
school to ask you the consist of a
student body and faculty members from
over five continents in 50 different
countries there everyone had a unique
cultural background
everyone was different but despite the
things that students learn in classrooms
they all share the qualities of being
foreign to the locus
luckily the school was located in a city
where I was born and raised so I only
needed to adapt to a new learning
environment however for my friends who
are from Brazil in India they needed to
adapt to more the separation from their
domestic culture and influence of the
local culture upon departed their
cultural identities many of my foreign
classmate found it difficult to trace
their cultural values and identities
while living in a foreign country they
are caught their culture kids a
population that was raised in a culture
that is different from the ones of their
parents yet unable to trace the identity
of either from the beginning of the 21st
century the number of third culture kids
increased from sixty million to about
230 million in 2013 yes the more people
begin to travel and moved around to live
in different countries the more culture
had been exchanged influenced and lost
the experience of culture shift truly
hit me four years ago when I moved to
the United State despite my many
traveling experiences studying and
living abroad made me feel truly far
away from home for the first time
although I had many experience of
learning in a westernized educational
style adapting to an entirely different
lifestyle in the
east coast of America was quite
difficult as I interacted with my
American friends my friends my friends
will consider me reserved and distant
but not only but not because I was shy
because in my culture people overly
expressing one’s emotion was considered
inappropriate moreover I was amazed by
the confidence and individuality stam my
American friends possessed because back
home in China people were inert
encouraged to be humble and blended into
group instead of standing out so I
thought to myself why not blending by
standing out and as I began to interact
more with the local people
I realized despite the many cultural
differences that we have we had more in
common when I was first invited to my
Thanksgiving dinner I realized no matter
where people are from we all enjoyed a
celebration for food who does not love a
good Thanksgiving meal more or less more
so we value our families even though we
might get annoyed when we’re forced to
talk to our second cousin’s child it was
to sing for me back home in Chinese New
Year and such connections and thin Alera
teas made me feel less homesick as
humans we all should share emotions such
as happiness sadness appreciation and
respect and no matter where we’re from
but even though we might speak the
different language have different color
of eye hair or skin or prefer a
different way to approach to problems we
are all humans to live on this planet
and globalization has brought us
together allowing us to compare and
contrast different ideas and views – ape
to a better world there are many things
that only be enhanced through the
integration of different cultures
earlier the week I’ve learned the phrase
two heads are better than one
interestingly in Chinese we have the
exact same same approach to the
effectiveness of collaboration siren
scene Bo or Chien through collaboration
artists and musicians are able to create
work there are unconventional
mathematicians and architect are able to
solve formulas or build new structures
through different perspectives
researchers and technological developers
are able to lunch to new discoveries or
magical experiments that benefit not
only the one nation of the entire human
society today the digital world further
accelerates the process of globalization
we are able to easily grasp the news
from across the Pacific fruit earning to
the international channel on TV or to
communicate with our friend who live in
a different continent where Skype or
email in fact the organization tad was
established through this sharing of
innovative ideas across the globe
countless beautiful creations has
occurred through the integration of
different cultures and by viewing issues
from multiple lenses allow us to see
problems and so problems for different
perspective although cultural loss is an
additive in a difficult aspect to
globalization but there we create things
that are new and self problems and
create new solutions I as one up to 230
million third culture kids and a member
of the one millionth international
student that are here studying in the US
and amazed by the impact of
globalization and a thankful for the
emergence of new ideas for cultural
integration
thank you
[Music]
you
English is not my first language perhaps
that qualified me as an international
student here in the US however and where
I’m from the turn International applies
to Jose whose first language is in
Chinese interesting cultural distinction
isn’t it
ten years ago I first recognized to turn
cultural identity well I went to a trip
in Europe I spent a month in Germany and
learned to say the phrase ek Hasina I
come from China I was surprised to the
bread and butter served at breakfast to
potato and meat for lunch and pasta for
dinner
there was no rice and I had to eat with
a fork and a knife instead of chopsticks
that was the first time I recognized the
differences between my world and a world
of someone else after this first
experience of somewhere traveling abroad
I began to travel more I love exploring
new ideas and learning cultural values
from people for all over the world
between the age of 7 to 17 I traveled
across 20 different countries and four
continent I was able to discover
different cultural values that
influenced me and drove miles away from
the Chinese traditional views and
multiple occasions people will ask me
where are you from and after hearing my
answers to respond you don’t see in
Chinese to me I realized that influence
that I gained from foreign cultures has
drove my values away from what people
expected as being the traditional
Chinese standard too many the
integration of different cultures or
globalization is considered a
destruction to localism and cost the
loss of an individual’s local identity
such concern is valid as I discovered
from my own traveling experiences but
moreover when I started to attend
international school in southern China
since sixth grade
I transferred from a Chinese local
school to ask you the consist of a
student body and faculty members from
over five continents in 50 different
countries there everyone had a unique
cultural background
everyone was different but despite the
things that students learn in classrooms
they all share the qualities of being
foreign to the locus
luckily the school was located in a city
where I was born and raised so I only
needed to adapt to a new learning
environment however for my friends who
are from Brazil in India they needed to
adapt to more the separation from their
domestic culture and influence of the
local culture upon departed their
cultural identities many of my foreign
classmate found it difficult to trace
their cultural values and identities
while living in a foreign country they
are caught their culture kids a
population that was raised in a culture
that is different from the ones of their
parents yet unable to trace the identity
of either from the beginning of the 21st
century the number of third culture kids
increased from sixty million to about
230 million in 2013 yes the more people
begin to travel and moved around to live
in different countries the more culture
had been exchanged influenced and lost
the experience of culture shift truly
hit me four years ago when I moved to
the United State despite my many
traveling experiences studying and
living abroad made me feel truly far
away from home for the first time
although I had many experience of
learning in a westernized educational
style adapting to an entirely different
lifestyle in the
east coast of America was quite
difficult as I interacted with my
American friends my friends my friends
will consider me reserved and distant
but not only but not because I was shy
because in my culture people overly
expressing one’s emotion was considered
inappropriate moreover I was amazed by
the confidence and individuality stam my
American friends possessed because back
home in China people were inert
encouraged to be humble and blended into
group instead of standing out so I
thought to myself why not blending by
standing out and as I began to interact
more with the local people
I realized despite the many cultural
differences that we have we had more in
common when I was first invited to my
Thanksgiving dinner I realized no matter
where people are from we all enjoyed a
celebration for food who does not love a
good Thanksgiving meal more or less more
so we value our families even though we
might get annoyed when we’re forced to
talk to our second cousin’s child it was
to sing for me back home in Chinese New
Year and such connections and thin Alera
teas made me feel less homesick as
humans we all should share emotions such
as happiness sadness appreciation and
respect and no matter where we’re from
but even though we might speak the
different language have different color
of eye hair or skin or prefer a
different way to approach to problems we
are all humans to live on this planet
and globalization has brought us
together allowing us to compare and
contrast different ideas and views – ape
to a better world there are many things
that only be enhanced through the
integration of different cultures
earlier the week I’ve learned the phrase
two heads are better than one
interestingly in Chinese we have the
exact same same approach to the
effectiveness of collaboration siren
scene Bo or Chien through collaboration
artists and musicians are able to create
work there are unconventional
mathematicians and architect are able to
solve formulas or build new structures
through different perspectives
researchers and technological developers
are able to lunch to new discoveries or
magical experiments that benefit not
only the one nation of the entire human
society today the digital world further
accelerates the process of globalization
we are able to easily grasp the news
from across the Pacific fruit earning to
the international channel on TV or to
communicate with our friend who live in
a different continent where Skype or
email in fact the organization tad was
established through this sharing of
innovative ideas across the globe
countless beautiful creations has
occurred through the integration of
different cultures and by viewing issues
from multiple lenses allow us to see
problems and so problems for different
perspective although cultural loss is an
additive in a difficult aspect to
globalization but there we create things
that are new and self problems and
create new solutions I as one up to 230
million third culture kids and a member
of the one millionth international
student that are here studying in the US
and amazed by the impact of
globalization and a thankful for the
emergence of new ideas for cultural
integration
thank you
[Music]
you
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