英语论文高中影响下的美国文化.doc

High school affects students in the United States 1041041052 文新学院 陈雅琳Before I write this essay, I asked a pen-pal in America about American culture. she told me, if I want to know something about American culture, I can start from knowing something about high schools in the United States.Its said that the high school experience tattooed into the memory of many Americans. The intensity is no doubt over determined. I dont quite know much about American culture, so I can only ask friends in the United States, paging through literature to make some guess. Different from the Chinese mainland, high schools in America are similar to Chinas university. Anyone has spend some time at college can list differences between high school life and university life in China. As high school life is different in America. In America, it always has enormous numbers of so-called extra-curricular activities, including a variety of clubs, the school newspaper, debating societies, and so forth. These activities can stimulate ones potential, performance ones talent and build ones character. Chinese student would completed this step at college, but not everyone would go to college while most people would enjoy a wonderful life while they are in high school. Therefore, the influence on American students come from high school is more profound than the influence on Chinese students come from university.I must say, high school is lifes change period in America.Here are a series of problems. When do American people build their own personality? In high school! When do they set up their own social relationship? In high school! When were they allowed to drink? When were they allowed to drive? When do they meet their lover forever? Of course in high school! All the things listed above happened in universities in china. So college experience tattooed on Chinese students most. At the same time, high school show its influence on a generations of Americans.Students begin to mature in high school, they have their own ideas in various aspects. They have a naive or strange point of view and they are not sure the view is correct. A lot of activities let them contact with more ideas, they will change their ideas sometimes or hold it, until they form a complete world outlook, the outlook on life, the values. The influence of high school life is very important.They also began their real social life in high school. The social life which isnt so simple, but more realistic, more severe. high school is a turning point in students in the United States life. From the beginning of high school, life is no longer the fairy tale for these students. From the beginning, they are adults. They need to take responsibility, learn to strong, face setbacksIn high school, American students see nearly every form of justice and injustice, kindness and meanness, intelligence and stupidity, which they are likely to encounter in later life. Either China or the United States, using nickname call others is a kind of custom among students. My friend told me that the labels for the categories vary from school to school, but the basic types remain surprisingly constant like Chinese schools. There are the popular kids, often the class ofcers; the athletic stars; the cheerleaders; the nerds, geeks, and eggheads, terms for socially awkward students; the hoods, druggies, and burnouts my friend told me they are the most alienated students; the prom queens on the one hand and the sluts on the other; the average citizens and the nobodies, whose main distinction is that they do not t into the high or low categories. Sounds different from the nicknames like runt or prince, more bitter, more utility. High school in the United States is a society, small but complete. Different from primary school or junior high school, nickname is not only nickname in high school, it reflects the social class in the United States. Poor class, high class, the middle class, you can find their influence from the nickname. So high school is different. It affects the students social status in the future.Yet, culture, history, system and so on also will affect Americans, but high school is so important in a student in the United States life. Every year many americans graduated from high school, and high school will affect a group of people every year. High school affects the students in United States.High school affects the United S/a/20120