ChineseStudentsLostintheDreamofStudyingintheUSA迷失的中国留学生文稿.pptVIP

Chinese students check out the video of President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s death on one Chinese video hosting site. In order to energize Chinese students’ social life and get them out of their dorm rooms, the university has organized an elaborate Disney-themed costume party. Yvette Zhang, the student assistant at the residence hall, knocks on door after door to invite Chinese students to the party. At the party, almost all Chinese students stand aside as spectators. The atmosphere is awkward. Most of the time they simply beat time to the music. Clara Zhang, 19, paid an admissions agent 25,000 yuan to prepare her application materials, and has come to study International Trade, hoping to work at the company her relatives run in the future. “I want my skin to be whiter, just like that of an American,” Clara said. However, the American roommate that the university pairs her with never shows up. Clara, now living alone, spends most of her time in the library and her dorm room preparing for the TOEFL. In 2011, nearly 60,000 Chinese undergraduates were studying in the U.S. – an increase of 43 percent from 2010. However, behind the figure are one hollow American dream after another of young and immature students. “Americans are very friendly. But it’s hard to make friends with them if your English is not good,” Clara said, “I look forward to real campus life. Looking at how American students walk and eat, I guess I haven’t tasted that type of life yet.” Photos: Chinese Students Lost in the Dream of Studying in the USA Translated by Jing Gao Ministry of Tofu April 5, 2012 In the past six years, Ohio University in the United States has seen a 35-fold increase in the number of Chinese undergraduate students. But language and culture differences pose barriers that eventually lead them to indulge in a Chinese circle that is cut off from the outside. It seems as if these young people, who flocked out of their country to seek higher education, never reached the o