Blog Post - Literature Review #2

 

2.Ma, Yingyi. (2020). Ambitious and anxious: How Chinese college students succeed and struggle in American higher education. New York: Columbia University Press.

3. Yingyi Ma talks a lot about how Chinese students struggle to fit into the United States culture when they first come here. She talks about how Chinese education norms are completely different than the one in the United States and talks about the problems with fitting in and uses many examples of things like this.

4.Yingyi Ma is a professor of sociology and she has written other books relating to International Students and Affairs.

5.Anxious- experiencing worry, unease, or nervousness, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.

Diversity-the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.

6.“comes from a well-heeled family-both of her parents are successful entrepreneurs in Shanghai. They are college graduates who set up their own textile business and reaped the benefits of China's open market since the reforms initiated in the late 1970s” (Ma 1)

“family is an ordinary one; her mother does not work and her father owns a small business. Her father works a second job driving Didi-the Chinese version of Uber- at night to supplement their income. Neither of her parents went to college, so she is a first-generation college student” (Ma 2)

"The impact of the unprecedented levels of Chinese international students goes beyond economics and has changed the landscape of American college campuses and their adjacent communities" (Ma 15)

7. I found my case study in this book. I was able to find two scenarios that were similar but had one difference that caused a huge change pertaining to my topic and argument of International Students.