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I was born in Hong Kong. As a child, I had traveled to many counties throughout the world such as Thailand, Malaysia, Japan and the United States, but my visits had been to mostly to popular tourist destinations. For example, in the United States, I visited Disneyland, Disney World, the World Trade Center, Sears Tower and the Statue of Liberty. Based on these trips, I had always thought that America was very similar to Hong Kong; America just had different looking people who spoke another language. My perception was also influenced by my ethnocentrism. Because Hong Kong is a very small, homogenous city, I assumed that all of America was just like New York.
I later returned to America to start my undergraduate education. It was Winter 2000, when the airplane slowly descended into the Indianapolis International Airport. I had expected to see the skyscrapers that had welcomed me on my previous journeys, but that day all I saw were corn fields and single story homes. I was shocked and left totally speechless. I asked myself, "What have I gotten into?" I did not know that farmland existed in America. I wondered, "Why do Americans need farms? Just import all your food. Who wants to...
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