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 …showed first 75 words of 1339 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1339 total…Because many Americans enjoy being alone and independent, they maybe perceived as cold, self-centered and lonely by foreigners. These are few stereotypes that I feel are played out and experienced by foreign exchange students in an American classroom. Even though I never could experience these stereotypes as a foreigner would because they are of normal culture to me, I feel the stereotypes are not degrading in anyway. The stereotypes just reflect a difference in culture.