Visible and Invisible Issues Faced by International Students in US Colleges

Running head: BUSINESS ETHICS
Business Ethics
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction:
In the modern society, it is seen that the parents are getting significantly demanding
towards their children regarding the studies and education of them. The majority of the
modern day parents are observed to put their kids to the schools at a significantly small ages.
This significantly creates a negative impression on the children as his or her proper
upbringing gets affected, not in terms of studies rather in terms of the natural or usual
upbringing at the child age1. Apart from this, at times the parents are observed to decide on
the choices of the studies for their children and that becomes significantly dangerous in cases
where the preferences of the children does not match with the choices selected by their
parents. This is observed to have a long lasting impact and has the potential to affect the
career and future of the children2. The paper is focused in elaborating one such case where
the student’s visible and invisible problem is discussed in taking the education from the
Queens College. The paper includes an interview of a student which discusses regarding the
issues and along with that it also identifies the concerned department which helps the student
to overcome this.
Interview:
Q. What is your name and where are you from?
Ans. Hi, this is Jack from China.
Q. Why did you came to United States?
Ans. Well, I came here to study Mathematics in the Queens College.
Q. What was your thinking behind the choice of the college?
1 Wang, Ming‐Te, and Salam Sheikh‐Khalil. "Does parental involvement matter for student achievement and
mental health in high school?." Child development 85, no. 2 (2014): 610-625.
2 Wilder, Sandra. "Effects of parental involvement on academic achievement: a meta-synthesis." Educational
Review 66, no. 3 (2014): 377-397.

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Ans. To be honest, my relatives live nearby to the college and I came from China where my
parents live till date. I had to go for the higher studies and Queens College being one of the
notable organization in proving education was at the top of the list for my selection. So I
opted it and the location of my relatives’ place was influential in the selection as well. It also
helped me to get back home early as well.
Q. What sort of issues you felt in the college?
Ans. Well, the initial days were significantly tough for me as the country was completely new
to me and in addition to that I was facing significant amount of issue in the registration and
the financial aid form fill up process as I was unable to find anyone from my family to help
me. My parents usually speak Chinese and they did not appear for the college. Hence they
were unable to help me in this case.
Apart from this I faced considerable amount of issues with the selection of the subject
as from my childhood I was incredibly passionate about Electrical and Electronics
Engineering. I used to do the repairing of the general household apparatus with significant
amount of speed and apart from that I had genuine interest on the operation of the motors,
generators along with other power electronics switches like Metal Oxide Field Effect
Transistors, Bipolar Junction Transistor or the Choppers. But with the significant amount of
influence of my relatives on my parents regarding the selection of subject for my study forced
me to take a comparatively less favoured subject which is mathematics. This was significant
in generating apathy towards my education.
Q. What are the invisible issues that you faced during your degree?
Ans. Well, it is again a problem that happened at the initial stages. I came from China to
complete my study here. Hence I was able to observe a considerable amount of cultural
differences between the Asian group and the local students. Here we were 21 students from