Student Exchange Programs

With the rapid growth of globalization, nowadays people’s life is becoming more and more international, whether in politics, academy, business or any other areas. Normally, people from different countries gether together to exchange their distinguishable or even conflicting ideas and try to learn more about the world: politicians make state visits frequently, aiming to learn advantageous politically managerial mechanism of foreign countries; more and more college and university students go abroad to further their study, feeling eager to broaden their horizon and make their own contribution to the motherland after returning. Examples like these are too numerous to count.

Realizing the remarkable benefits people can get, many institutions of higer education have established various exchanging programs, sending their own students, if qualified, to other countries while receiving foreigh students as well. This kind of experience of studying in a totally unfamiliar society and with totally strange persons prepares the students for an valuable opportunity to experience something new and curious about, which actually an help students cultivate an ability to see things in a more thorough and deeper way. Being in a completely alien or even mysterious country, dealing with people they entirely do not know and even in a different manner, students tend to treat problems from different perspectives and with different approaches, not as they might think before, just right or wrong, good or bad. Furthermore, when tackling the difficulties, students will meanwhile get more details which helps them eventually solve the problem and hence a better understanding of the nderlying cultural root. Only in the way of dealing with conflicts with others can they really realize their own peoblems and finally correct them.

Here, we could also take ancient China as an forceful example. As is known to all, ancient China, as a country whose thoughts lagging behind, though enjoying