{"id":20579,"date":"2022-01-27T15:12:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T20:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/?p=20579"},"modified":"2022-02-02T08:43:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T13:43:49","slug":"pre-study-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2022\/01\/27\/pre-study-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Study Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An aspect of U.S. culture is a generally a go getter attitude. People in the United States are more open to risk taking and exploring all aspects of what the world has to offer. In general, we are seekers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My own judgments on these aspects are that in of itself. I do believe that our culture is very competitive but it in a way it sometimes divides rather than unites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I imagined anyone seeing the U.S from an outsiders perspective, I would think they thought we were too self-motivated. Because of our competitiveness they may think we are less inclined to help others, when in reality Americans are very eager to lend a helping hand. I think they would see us a culture of creativity and openness which I believe is a great thing to be seen as.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This really helps me prepare my mind to be aware that what my morals and beliefs are, others will not know that. It&#8217;s important to go in with an open mind to explain, learn, and observe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aspect of U.S. culture is a generally a go getter attitude. People in the United States are more open to risk taking and exploring all aspects of what the world has to offer. In general, we are seekers.&nbsp; My own judgments on these aspects are that in of itself. I do believe that our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[369],"class_list":["post-20579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france-iau-college","tag-rollinsabroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20580,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20579\/revisions\/20580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}