Pay attention to U.S. immigration and read the U.S. guide thoroughly: In American schools, whether in the crowded student center during lunch or the bustling hallways after school, you will not see the scenes from American movies where everyone sings and dances while eating. Although there is no racial discrimination, Black students tend to only socialize with other Black students, chatting while listening to heavy metal rock and rap music. Mexicans, apart from a few social butterflies who can mingle with Asians and Whites, tend to stick together exchanging tacos and barbecue sauce. The Asian group is the most fragmented. When you see one Korean, it represents twenty Koreans; they are always together eating kimchi rice, chatting loudly in Korean, always holding a Korean book, playing Korean online games, or watching Korean baseball games, and no one can separate them.
In contrast, the social circle of Chinese students is much more complex and dispersed. Those who speak Cantonese form one group, constantly chatting in Cantonese without regard for others. Students from Beijing and Shanghai feel they are sophisticated and cannot be lost among yellow-skinned individuals, so they often mingle in circles with White students, but the effect is minimal. For many White students, sports and your physical prowess are the tickets to join their social circles. Every lunch, dozens of burly White men in football jerseys occupy a row of sofas, munching on pizza and discussing tactics.
In comparison, there are also muscular Chinese students with athletic abilities, but they tend to be more artistic, producing many violinists and a large number of painters.
Many international students from China fall into the trap of making friends: in China, asking classmates for phone numbers is very common, but in the United States, unless you want to pursue someone, you would not shamelessly ask for their number. Many international students think that if they have a good relationship with someone, they can just ask for a phone number, which ends up offending many people. Some Chinese students feel embarrassed to talk to White students, so they befriend Indians, Blacks, and ABCs (American-born Chinese), but while they may have made friends, the quality is often lacking. Indians may seem very friendly at first, but they can be unreliable at critical moments, while many Blacks and Mexicans do not study seriously and are always playing, making it easy for you to join in their activities. In the end, they may be satisfied with attending an ordinary university, leaving many international students who aim for prestigious universities in despair. Many ABCs only learn about American ideals of freedom, spending their days playing computer games, staying up late, and neglecting their homework, indulging themselves in the name of freedom.
In contrast, immigrants from Europe tend to be of higher quality, enjoy learning, have ideas, and are not bookworms. Some ABCs with stricter family upbringing are also good; they generally have many local friends, perform well academically, and are closer to Chinese students, allowing them to quickly integrate into positive American student circles.