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How do you feel you were viewed abroad?
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LaNitra Berger
Senior Manager of Research and Policy
NAFEO
It depends on where I was studying. In Europe, people were curious about the black experience in America. In South Africa, blacks expressed a sense of racial solidarity and...
Kenya Casey
Study Abroad Advisor
Emory University
Each experience in the countries I visited varied. However, for the most part when I travel abroad, most people do not believe me when I say I am African American. Very...
Jessica
Graduate Student
Loyola Marymount University
Graduate Student
Additional Mentor Interviews
Various students and administrators
interviewed by the Center for Global Education
Various students and administrators
Additional Mentor Interviews
Various students and administrators
interviewed by the Center for Global Education
Various students and administrators
Additional Mentor Interviews
Various students and administrators
interviewed by the Center for Global Education
Various students and administrators
Tony Laing
Ph.D. Student
University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign
I was viewed differently in each place visited. For example, in Ghana I was called a “Diaspora” – Black American who had returned home; In South Africa, I was seen as a rich...
Barack Hussein Obama
44th and current President of the United States
United States
I know that the stereotypes of the United States are out there, and I know that many of them are informed not by direct exchange or dialogue, but by television shows and...
Kimberly
Senior Year Student
Loyola Marymount University
Studying abroad in China, I felt that the Chinese were extremely friendly and polite to everyone. As a growing economy, which caters to more foreigners, China was very...
Nancy
Senior Year Student
Loyola Marymount University
It was an advantage in Spain to not be the ‘typical’ blond haired, blue eyed American that people think of. It was an advantage because I felt they don’t like Americans and...
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