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    Two Years in The Melting Pot Conparison Essay

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    The document discusses the experiences of two people, Liu Zongren and the author, adjusting to life in America as foreigners. Both struggled with boredom when first arriving due to different social and cultural norms. They worked to improve their English by watching television and practicing speaking with others. Over time, both learned to adjust to American culture and society through attending gatherings and talking with others.

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    The document discusses the experiences of two people, Liu Zongren and the author, adjusting to life in America as foreigners. Both struggled with boredom when first arriving due to different social and cultural norms. They worked to improve their English by watching television and practicing speaking with others. Over time, both learned to adjust to American culture and society through attending gatherings and talking with others.

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    The document discusses the experiences of two people, Liu Zongren and the author, adjusting to life in America as foreigners. Both struggled with boredom when first arriving due to different social and cultural norms. They worked to improve their English by watching television and practicing speaking with others. Over time, both learned to adjust to American culture and society through attending gatherings and talking with others.

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    For every people who move to a foreign country, we have to learn the

    new language and adjust the culture. In “ Two Years in the Melting Pot”
    by Liu Zongren, both Liu’s experience and mine in the U.S. are alike in
    many ways. Although the stories that caused us to come to the U.S. is
    different, we do our best to adjust our new lives is similar.
    Both Liu and I suffered from boredom at the beginning when we
    arrived in America. Liu was bored because his classes did not start yet
    and he had no where to go or do. All he could do was wall around the
    lake and sometimes talking to people he saw there. Similarly, I too was
    bored when I first got to America. In China, I hanged out late at night
    with my friends at restaurants because they were open late there. I was
    bored in America because many restaurants and places are closed very
    early so there were no where to go to hang around at night.
    In both our experiences, we yearn to learn and speak English. Liu
    said that from the first night he had arrived in the United States, he had
    spent about six hours watching TV every day in order to practice his
    listening and pronunciation. In comparison, I, too, watched a lot of TV
    shows to learn the way Americans really talks. At first, I watched
    children shows, which were easier to understand. Moreover, in Liu’s
    story, he worked hard to meet Americans to practice English. By the same
    token, I practice speaking English with my classmates, which includes
    two Chinese, two Korean, one Japanese and one Indonesian. We all try to
    get together every week to talk and practice our English. Both of us used
    similar strategies to improve our English.
    In Liu’s and my situations, we struggled to adjust to the American
    society. Liu, with his goal of learning all he could about America through
    the people, attended parties and gatherings nearly every week. In my
    case, just as Liu did, I joined the gatherings that were held by a group of
    my America born Chinese friends on special occasions. While we talked,
    our topic invariably jumping from one specific culture to another and
    something that particularly represents America. Over time like Liu, I
    started to learn and understand the American culture.
    On the whole, even through Liu’s incidents was different from mine;
    we overcame our difficulties in America. Liu was being westernized.
    For me, I became more accustomed to the people, the way, and the
    different environment. As Liu did “ with great confidence in his English,
    he struck out in all direction”.

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