Some Similar Feeling

PART 1:

Different culture can not be adopted easily for everyone who arrived in a new country, no matter what a strong adaptive capability you have. Liu’s need to be with other Chinese is a general phenomenon. Because as a foreigner student, you can catch up others minds and even talk with them fluently, but it is difficult to understand and adopt their culture indeed, like the excerpt of “Two Years in the Melting Pot” said, “I was born Chinese and so I think in a Chinese way.” For these days I have been in the U.S, I have a similar feeling, I think as time goes on, maybe I can make progress with English, or make friends with other local students easily, but I can not change my traditional mind anytime, because I grow up with Chinese culture, it has figured my view deeply, even now I live in a new place and face a new culture.

Therefore we can find the accounts for the need to be with other people from the same country, even if they are strangers. The same culture give people more common subject of a talk, it will easily make people much closer. Especially in abroad, most of people we meet are foreigners, so when we meet a native person, we would like to talk with him or her, and usually it will be a beginning of a new friendship.

PART 2:

Melting pot: place where large numbers of immigrants from many different countries live together.

blur: (cause sth to) become unclear or indistinct .

gap:

1. opening or break in sth or between two things

2. unfilled interval of space

3. unfilled interval of time

4. (fig) separation

5. (fig) deficiency which needs to be filled