Recent years, more and more Chinese people rush abroad for studying, especially students in college, high school and middle school, even a lot of children are sent abroad in their childhood. In fact, the number of people studying or planning to study abroad has increased so rapidly that now it is very common to see several Chinese students walking in the campus of nearly any foreign country.

Most families in China are not very rich and the visas to some countries are hard to obtain, but almost all of them support their children studying abroad and devote all the money to it. I think the reason is that many parents put their dreams onto children, want them to be the best, understand how difficult to find a good, stable job at present in China and see many people who have studied abroad get better job and earn high salary, thus they think it is worth investing their money to send children abroad and some of them even believe that it will provide a guarantee for their children to find good job and enjoy high-quality life after coming back.

On the other hand , as for people who study abroad voluntarily, they usually

have the purposes to learn more advanced knowledge, expand their abilities, get a better job in future, follow the fashion or have fun and escape from endless exams in China, especially the final entrance examination to university which is always a terrible nightmare for most high school students.

As well as obvious academic benefits, by the daily communication with others, we also improve their second-language skills quickly. Furthermore, they will discover many differences in terms of culture, way of thinking, history, customs and lifestyle. A final point is that they can meet much more new people in campus or workplace who may be not friendly enough or have a different view of value towards the world. Thus, they gain a broader experience of life in general. What is more, they will become more tolerant and open-minded and develop many interpersonal skills. They will be more independent and emotionally mature as they have lived apart from their family for a long time and dealt with many living problems.

However, studying abroad could also influence people in negative ways.

Well, by summing up the experience of my friends studying abroad, together with some reports in newspaper, I get a general idea about students who suffer from a lot of troubles and pains. They are mediocre and confused, or even lose themselves. Some of them can¡¯t understand the lecturers¡¯ English at all after studying there for a long time, since they are so introverted that they seldom communicate with others actively. Some just learn how to have fun, quarrel, fight and take drugs, thus becoming a person who only wastes time and money. And they always consider higher than others

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