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Dictation: 0:46 / 17:02 OFF β€’ 1. Small talk and friendliness πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ CULTURE SHOCK in America as an international student abroad. (cornell university) πŸ‡΅πŸ‡­ #23

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hyunsik-yoon commented 1 year ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUnhES5GbrI

hyunsik-yoon commented 1 year ago

1.https://youtu.be/xUnhES5GbrI?t=10

today's video is a very highly requested very fun one. we're gonna talk about the culture shocks of america.

if you new to my channel, aloha, i am katie, i am an internal student in the Philippn, studying abroad in Cornell university. technically i'm in the phillippin right now cause of covid and continue remotely

but i had two years livling in america as a student there're many things that have shocked me that have been hard to adjust that have been hard to related to some my friends in america becuase i grrew up so differently,

the first thing is small talk and freiendliness. wow. people in america is so friendly, when you're in elevator, you'll see nothing the entire elevator right up
good evening or they;ll like acknowledge your presence whereas here i have never said that to anybody

so when we're at restrauant or buy something i notice people in american making an effort have small conversation to talk to you it's like very daunting business in my experience here in Philippines it's like put in your order say thank you do all the polite but no actual conversation after that.

hyunsik-yoon commented 1 year ago

2. https://youtu.be/xUnhES5GbrI?t=84

time in america is so valuable it is counted on the dot if you have a meeting at 4pm and you show up 5 minutes late you'd better give heads up ahead of time it's not acceptable really to do show up that late without any excuse because it's kinda like a big sign that i don't care about your time if you show up that late

whereas in the Philippines a dinner was scheduled at 7 PM but it won't start until 9 PM and it's normal no one will complain, they are just like, haha Philippino time whatever

it has been a big shock to me because i come back home every winter and summer and i have to adapt when i'm in america, ok i agree on this time let's do it and then i come back home philippines i expect people to do that and they'll be like why are you so in a rush all the time most of my family like, can you be a bit more flexible?

and it like look down upon when i being really fussy about my time yeah, you're right timely sure you should be more flexible we're good for different worlds i feel like constantly being tugged by two worlds because on one hand, i am like in mindset like let's do stuff, get stuff done, timing matters also because my schedule is so packed back to back in america it's like planned by the hour whereas in philippines's like plan by the day

like i have a few goals per day and it doesn't matter if there's some changes spontaneously here and there but it's very chill.

hyunsik-yoon commented 1 year ago

3. https://youtu.be/xUnhES5GbrI?t=163

this one's interesting. strangers danger

let's say i want to meet up with my friend, like going a coffee chat with someone just learn about the project, i don't know network

i probably would not do that in philippine i would not meet someone online and agree to meet them in person whereas in the states i am more open to do that i am in to collage campus it's safer in that setting but even like people who reach out to me in linkedin and as long as mutual friend i would be down to go on a call with them

but when that happens to me in philippines little bit more cautious i think it's just when you grow up in different places your brain kinda adapts to that environment and adapts that cultures

so i have noticed that about me

this is one of my favorite one.

political correctness.

i have zero sense of being pc in the philippins really nothing compared to learn in america i get why its because america is so diverse all over the world whereas in the philippines we are pretty homogeneous

more phipippino ascian we kinda get the cultiures we're more open to say things could be offeisice

hyunsik-yoon commented 1 year ago

4. https://youtu.be/xUnhES5GbrI?t=277

let's talk about lifestyle

in america there is huge work life separation in the professional sense, it very much means that you have 9 to 5 job and after that point, it is social life.

they are respectful of your time outside that work you set aside whereas in P some people still work on saturday and it's normal

it's more like relax and chill going overtime is more common it's a bit more graceful when it happens but i feel like when it happens in america people are more strict, like yo, this is overtime BTW

on opposite end, i think it's really interesting there is also no work life balance in a collage setting in that people just work work work

maybe it's because i go to cornell and cornell is pretty prestigous people are working all the time like liter=ally working non-stop even on friday, libraries are grinding, saturday, sunday is grinding don't stop.

in the P, there is definitely a pause on weekend especially on sunday sunday is a family day nobody works on sunday it is weird if you call about work on sunday

and even as i was growing up in a high school i always just reserve sometime on sunday for family

hyunsik-yoon commented 1 year ago

5. https://youtu.be/xUnhES5GbrI?t=365

another thing i will tell you is america is expensive and consumer culture is huge

the cost of living in A is way way way higher base on my research the starting salary of P graduate student here on the top school is 5K dollars compare to A where the Cornell statistics I saw is 50K dollars.

that's 20 times and even with that amount people in A struggle with only earning that much especially if we take loans. it is just insane how big that gap is. like 20 times. the amount.

so let's start talking about financial goals.

i have noticed all my friends in A that their goal is to start their career ASAP the reason they work so hard during collage is to get this internship so they can immediately get full time offers they can be set in NY or bay area and getting apartment without their parents home

and it's almost look down upon if you stay with your parents, like you're not able to find a job whereas for me i grow up i live under roof of my parents house until i found a husband or something that's at least what my parents told me

hyunsik-yoon commented 1 year ago

6. https://youtu.be/xUnhES5GbrI?t=447

financing collage

many people in the sates take out loan they start working part time job when they are in the high school so that they can start picking for their education

some people do allocate funds for their collage education but many of my friends i noticed do not have the allocation so that they have taken the responsibility to themselves to pay off their loan completely fund education.

whereas as me, i am very grateful that my parents have already allocated that for me like my parents care so much about education that's why growing up to told me study hard literally like, the goal is just work hard because education is the key to unlock opportunity.

well i am super grateful that i didn't have to worry about any debt BTW the very unique problem in A is the whole collage debt situation i noticed this is very distinctive of A and it's not as common in other countries as I noticed

but the trade-off of that though is that it makes me financially independent on my family growing up i didn't not have the freedom of decisions of my own because i didn't have say over my money it was very much, like i had ask my parents

hyunsik-yoon commented 1 year ago

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