Chinese got me paid

I got paid by tutoring a girl Chinese for the first time this afternoon.

She was my classmate in last semester and also my friend, who is going to China with Baylor Chinese oversea study program this summer for several weeks. That is why I accepted the a lot lower price than average to tutor her. Passionate or curious, having interest in another culture should always be encouraged. Especially for some Americans, I have to say, because they seem to be too privileged to notice the rest of the world nowadays.

Sometimes, I am a little hesitated to mention this topic with my American friends, simply because our nature of pride. Who wants to be criticized? However, there has been a couple of times, I got really frustrated.

Once I was interviewed by a junior student from International Study major, who was doing a research on Chinese culture for a project. Noticing her academic background and field of study, I bet you would not feel less awkward as I did when you found she actually was so lack of basic knowledge of China that I couldn't answer her deep interview questions which were obviously prepared from her professor without introducing many common senses.

And that doesn't only happen to knowledge of China.

I prefer to categorize it into individual differences. After all, there were more Americans also shocked by Miss teen South Carolina, even though one fifth American cannot locate the U.S. on a world map.