{"id":68604,"date":"2005-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-students-take-a-step-off-the-tour-bus\/"},"modified":"2005-04-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-06T00:00:00","slug":"uri-students-take-a-step-off-the-tour-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2005\/04\/uri-students-take-a-step-off-the-tour-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 students take \u2018a step off the tour bus\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I — April 6, 2005 — While riding a train from Munich to Budapest last summer, 溏心vlog免费B站 student Sean McIntyre found himself alone in a compartment with another man for three hours. The two men began to talk.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe South Kingstown youth was surprised to learn that his fellow traveler was an Iraqi because he was drinking and clean shaven. The Iraqi was surprised that the American student didn\u2019t own a home, follow football or own a car.<\/p>\n


\n\tAssumptions, McIntyre inferred, tend to evaporate when individuals from various parts of the world meet face-to-face.<\/p>\n


\nServing as moderator and facilitator, McIntyre, a history and English double major, and four other 溏心vlog免费B站 students who either studied, lived, or worked abroad, talked about their experiences and how the people they met viewed America and Americans. The panel discussion, \u201cA Step Off the Tour Bus,\u201d held earlier this month was sponsored by the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Program and the Office of International Education.<\/p>\n


\nFrank Justice, a political science major from Lancaster, Pa. who spent six months in Brazil said that many Brazilians see the U.S. as arrogant and egotistical. \u201cI was often asked if I liked President Bush. I felt as though my friendship with people depended on my response.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nBrazil is leading a United Nations peacekeeping force in Haiti and values working multilaterally. It doesn\u2019t approve of U.S. foreign policy, particularly the war in Iraq. Justice held up one of the country\u2019s major magazines. On the cover was a picture of the Statue of Liberty with a black eye. <\/p>\n


\n\tYet American influence is everywhere. American clothing is extremely popular, more than 50 percent of the radio stations are in English, and more than half of the movies shown in Brazil are American, spoken in English, with Portuguese subtitles.<\/p>\n


\n\tCourtney McKenna, a Scituate native wanted to study at the Sorbonne in Paris at a time when American and French relations had reached a low point regarding the war in Iraq. Some American restaurants were serving \u201cfreedom fries\u201d instead of French fries and pouring French wines in the streets in many U.S. cities. <\/p>\n


\nThe communication studies and French double major was advised not to bring up politics. Nervous about her reception in France, McKenna forged ahead. She needn\u2019t have worried. She found the French friendly and helpful. McKenna concluded that the U.S. media has a big influence on the way Americans think about things and has gone on to study the subject through her senior honors project.<\/p>\n


\n\t Susan Papino of Cranston, a double major in history and Italian, studied in Florence, Italy. The Italians she met weren\u2019t interested in discussing politics, but they did want to know all about Brittany Spears.<\/p>\n


\n\tPapino felt a culture shock upon her return. Life, she said, is much faster here. Used to walking everywhere when she was in Italy, she tried to continue the practice here. She did for a while and then stopped. Friends and acquaintances would stop their cars and ask her what was wrong? Did something happen? Why are you walking?<\/p>\n


\n\tThe people that Lisa Lahr of Middletown encountered during three visits to the Republic of Georgia want Americans to know that they are not Russians. They have their own culture dating back to the 5th Century. <\/p>\n


\nLahr also found that chivalry is not dead in the former Soviet Republic. Used to being independent, the 溏心vlog免费B站 returning student found that she should not pick up her suitcase. A man had to do that. After landing in New York, Lahr hailed a cab. \u201cAren\u2019t you going to pick them up?\u201d the cabbie asked looking at Lahr\u2019s luggage on the sidewalk. \u201cWe don\u2019t have all night, ya know.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\n溏心vlog免费B站 students (seated l-r) Susan Papino of Cranston, Frank Justice of Lancaster, Pa., and Courtney McKenna of Scituate and (standing l-r) Lisa Lahr of Middletown and Sean McIntyre of South Kingstown either worked, lived, or studied in other countries. 溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau photo by Michael Salerno photography.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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