"Where do you come from?". That is one of the normal questions that people will ask when they get to know someone. The answer to that question though becomes more varied now. The answers that we get now do not consist of places from another state only, but the answers are filled with places from other countries. In Purdue itself, the population of international student is up to eleven percent of the whole population. The international students' population has been growing over the last few years. What have triggered this event? Why do many foreign students wish to go and study abroad instead of at their own hometown? The answers to those questions have been discussed in my previous papers. Now, it is the time to discuss whether studying abroad is overrated. There are two sides of the argument, one will be against studying abroad and another will discuss the advantages of studying abroad.
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Council of International Students Australia
USF International StudentsThere are, of course, difficulties that will be faced by students when they are abroad. One of such difficulties is to be prejudiced against. As can be seen in the article by Nadine Dolby entitled "Encountering an American self: Study Abroad and National Identity." In the article, the American students were prejudiced against during their stay in Australia. It may be a good experience to study abroad, but for some, the experience may not be so. Imagine to be eating at a restaurant and then, people start to talk about you just because of what your nationality is. Not only about your origin, but international students are also prejudiced in other ways. Generally, it is harder for international students to get visa more so, since the nine eleven incident. There has been an increase in the number of rejected visa to America. Some students who went...