Personal experience: my observations about Americans
'24.10.2017'
You know, I try not to write any generalizations about Americans, such as everything here is insincere and thick. Or, for example, that everyone on the roads behaves perfectly: no one cuts you off, no signals, and generally sends air kisses through the glass.
I think that in order to draw any conclusions, you need to live at least 10 years in the country.
In addition, I am increasingly convinced that there is no black and white, as there is no one and the same recipe of Charlotte from different housewives.
I try to write about what I came across myself, and if I share with you what I have been told native speakers, I always refer to them without giving out other people's words for my own.
I took my first English semester in college for the first time. In my group, one girl is from Vietnam, and everyone else is American. The course is very intensive: I constantly write essays, remembering all my journalistic skills, because they don't want us to be an academic routine. In a month we must submit 7 essays on various topics, and one research paper on 15 pages.
I already got two of my works back, and you know what struck me? The teacher never starts a conversation with your mistakes. On the contrary, most of the discussion about what he liked most about your work, what her strengths are.
And only then does she add: "There is still work to be done here." And he also explains the cons in detail. And, by the way, all this is done in private, though, perhaps, because the group is small.
And I noted this because when I first saw my grade “4,5” out of “5”, I thought: “What's wrong? Why have you removed half a point? " I got used to being constantly told about mistakes at school, forgetting to talk about good things, and got used to being aimed at grades.
Now I retrain, each lesson analyzing what I learned new and what I learned.
I don't know if the entire American system is like this, this is my third teacher, but this attitude warms my heart very much and for this I want to say to all teachers (the attitude of the previous ones was the same) a big human “thank you”. For me, as an emigrant, and also as a journalist by profession, this is very important.
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