Topic 7: Change and the Future

The biggest change so far is to transfer from local school to an American-institution school. Under 9.5 years of Taiwanese education, it is pretty hard at first to adapt to American school. Not only the language is different, but also the cultural differences. In spite of the differences I have to adapt, I also need to face new challenge such as SAT. Applying foreign college is lots more complicate than I thought. Also even after college, I need to worry about what job to do. Parents would expect their children to become doctor, lawyer, or engineer. The social expectations for Asians are also jobs that require good math ability. However, interested in human mind, I want to do the types of the job that can help people to cope with their mental problems. Though for now it might somehow be hard for Asian to be a psychological counselor in United States, since most of the Whites would prefer not to share their feelings with an Asian psychological counselor (at least my dad said so, which is totally nonsense). However, I think the working environment in the future will be totally different from now because the whole society is changing. In the future it seems that Western countries will be inhabited with Asians and Eastern countries will be inhabited with Europeans. Working environment might also change in the sense that people are not that discriminatory.