How do overseas students integrate into the local community?

Go to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble with the locals.

After going abroad, in addition to missing family and friends, the language barrier is usually the biggest difficulty for international students, and various other factors may make it difficult for a while. Let's talk about how overseas students can integrate into the local community.

First, the adaptation period should learn to "land" smoothly

Students should be prepared for the troubles they may encounter studying abroad and give time to adjust. Most students will be nervous and scared when they first arrive abroad, and each international student and his or her family will need to have a cultural adaptation period of about 6 months, during which parents must encourage themselves and their children to spend these six months together.

Second, we should learn to enter the country as soon as possible

International students should understand the local environment and culture in advance before going abroad, so as to enter the country as soon as possible. Most Chinese students are very shy, and Western students happen to be rebellious. Therefore, international students should break their habits and become more extroverted, not only to integrate into the class, but also to seek help from the school's student advisors.

3. Learn to effectively change the way of communication

For international students who have just gone abroad, there are some difficulties in communicating with foreigners in the early stage. For example, Chinese are generally tactful and indirect, while foreigners will reject you in person.

There is also a big difference between the education system at home and abroad, and foreign teachers encourage students to participate in a wide range of activities, and give guidance and assistance in the learning process, while attaching great importance to students' responses.

To sum up, international students should try to express themselves as actively as possible, communicate with others more, and at the same time do not be afraid to expose their shortcomings in learning, and should take the initiative to seek help from the corresponding people when they encounter difficulties, only in this way can they better adapt to their overseas life in Switzerland.

How to integrate into the local society is an eternal topic for overseas Chinese, and many people think that language is the biggest obstacle, but it is not. Many people speak languages that are not refined, but they have always had more foreign friends than Chinese friends. How do international students fit into the local community?

What international students need to overcome is the psychological barrier, be confident, be bold, open your mouth and take the initiative to say hello to your friends, say hello, and take the first step.

Or you can find foreigners who are interested in Chinese culture, exchange Chinese culture and traditional customs with them, and teach them Chinese and calligraphy and other arts, I believe this will also help to integrate into the local area. Of course, all of this is premised on your willingness to communicate with others.

Don't try to impose your own ideas on them, that will be the most disadvantageous to yourself. Once there is a conflict, it is still inconvenient for us to be in a foreign land. Seeking common ground while reserving differences is the right way.

I once saw a saying: The secret of social success is to be thick-skinned. Whoever utters the first sentence is the winner.

If you lock yourself in the library and study all night because you don't want to fit in, then you may gain a few chapters of knowledge, and you lose a way and occasion to learn more directly about foreign cultures.

In fact, the so-called "entering the circle of foreigners" has a very different understanding. Wine and meat friends are everywhere regardless of color and national borders, but if you want to make a group of international friends who are close to your heart, it's another matter.

Many international students are faced with the problem of how to better integrate into local life, so how to make international students better integrate into local life?

First of all, whether it is going abroad to go to university or high school, or even junior high school and elementary school, language ability is a "stepping stone". The locals are generally very welcoming, and it won't be difficult to make friends. It's just that they don't imagine that the friend in front of them has overcome the Chinese's dating habits or social fears.

When you are clear about your own traits and at the same time are tolerant of the traits of others without judgment, you are most likely to find the right circle and fit in. Practice your English, get out of the enclosed space, and you'll become a popular international student!

Secondly, cultural adaptation is the core and foundation of cross-cultural adaptation, which helps young international students adapt to overseas study and life faster and better. For children living in big cities, there are many opportunities to be exposed to the cultures of different nationalities and countries from an early age, so the foundation for acculturation is better.

The most important thing is to learn what you really like, not the major where Chinese gather in large numbers. Especially at the graduate level, studying is a very good way to make friends with similar interests. Assuming that everyone genuinely enjoys the major they are studying, then the major itself is a point of alignment for like-minded people.

When going to school in Europe and the United States, there are often some teamwork projects such as group work, and local children often do not perform well at this time due to the lack of solid basic education, or drink too much the night before, as the only Chinese in the group or team, this is the time to give full play to the true colors of our Chinese children, turn the tide, and show the wisdom of the Chinese nation.

If you study some majors that are crowded with Chinese, such as business or computer science, then it is very likely that you will be in the same laboratory, the same project, the same world and the same dream with many Chinese children, so that the social circle is naturally more Chinese.