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Study Abroad Effects on Youth

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In most developing countries, studying abroad comes as a very lucrative opportunity to

most of the young men and women who get an opportunity. They perceive studying in another

country, especially in colleges and universities in developed countries such as the United States,

the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, and China, as a means of upgrading their lives

and their social status in the society. Furthermore, going to study abroad while leaving one’s

schoolmates to struggle for few university slots and college chances in their home country, is

both prestigious as well as, as potential for their resume and career development. In fact, most

employers in developing countries, especially those from the third world countries like most

African nations, prefer to employ a student with an overseas degree or certificate rather than one

from their local universities and colleges. This is because they perceive universities abroad as

having a better study curriculum than that of their local education system (Boyd, Barry L., et al.

39).

However, studying abroad comes along with a number of challenges for the youth and

students who depart their home countries for a foreign nation in search of greener pastures in

terms of their credentials. One of the main challenges that these students face is confinement to a

different climate and weather conditions not familiar to them prior to their departure. Some of

them even board a plane for a long distance overseas journey for the very fast time in their lives,

an experience that leaves most of them weak and sickly for days. To worsen matter, the weather

conditions in the country that they go to study are usually unbearable and take them a

considerable time before they adapt. As such, the first few days, or months living as a foreign

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student in a new country becomes like hell to a new student. The weather is sometimes too hot

for them to bear or biting coldness that they find hard to withstand (Barker, Michelle, et al. 81).

Imagine a student from the depths of Africa; say the republic of Uganda, who gets an

opportunity to study in the United States for his bachelors’ degree. This student is young, about

nineteen to twenty one years of age, and carries most, if not all, the hopes of his family and

relatives that when he returns from the US with a good degree, he will get a good job and uplift

his family from poverty. As such, he carriers a huge responsibility on his shoulders, and departs

his homeland in pursuit for their salvation. However, on touching down on American soil, he

encounters a completely new environment, a total opposite from what he knows from Uganda.

These include the different levels of infrastructural development, different climatic conditions,

and different cultural values and morals, from those in Uganda. All these factors dazzle this

young man in that before he accustoms to the new changes and adapts to his new environment, in

order to pursue his goals, time is no longer on his side (Samuelowicz 123).

Adapting to the new American culture becomes another impediment for this new student,

ones he learns the trick about weather and climate changes. Such adaptations to the social

environment begin by making new friends. An individual finds it hard to make new friends if he

or she is not social with others, or find it quite easy to make new friends if he or she is an

outgoing individual. It is important to note that the kind of friends one chooses at the university

and colleges determine their behavior and character throughout their academic journeys. There

are those friends who influence others positively, while the bad friends influence other

negatively. Therefore, new students in a new country should be very careful when choosing their

friends so they may not end up in bad company (Sanchez 112).

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Name Instructor Task Date Study Abroad Effects on Youth In most developing countries, studying abroad comes as a very lucrative opportunity to most of the young men and women who get an opportunity. They perceive studying in another country, especially in colleges and universities in developed countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, and China, as a means of upgrading their lives and their social status in the society. Furthermore, going to study abroad while leaving one's schoolmates to struggle for few university slots and college chances in their home country, is both prestigious as well as, as potential for their resume and career development. In fact, most employers in developing countries, especially those from the third world countries like most African nations, prefer to employ a student with an overseas degree or certificate rather than one from their local universities and colleges. This is because they perceive universities abroad as having a better study curriculum than that of their local education system (Boyd, Barry L., et al. 39). However, studying abroad comes along with a number of challenges for the youth and students who depart their home countries for a foreign nation in search of greener pastures in terms of their credentials. One of the main challenges that these students face is confinement to a different climate and weather conditions not familiar to them prior to their departure. Some of them even board a p ...
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