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- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
She spent most of her career in a minority-serving school district. Sharing stories from her travels helped her students see value in their own cultures.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
“There’s value in all experiences, not just typical American ones,” Bright said. Bright has visited more than 20 countries.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
But Bright, unlike Sadikova, does not report feeling connected to people around the world. Bright is not alone.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
She is among the more than half of Americans who report they do not feel especially close to people around the world.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
That information comes from a new report by Pew Research Center, an organization that aims to inform the public about the issues, beliefs and trends shaping the world.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
The report, called Attitudes on an Interconnected World was released on December 6.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
Pew recently asked people in 24 countries a series of questions about how connected they feel to their own communities and countries as well as to people around the
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
world. Pew researchers looked at, among other things, how international travel experience relates to feelings of connectedness.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
About half of all respondents reported they feel at least somewhat close to people all over the world.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
Feeling close to others around the world is more common in Europe than in most other places, the study found.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
In the United States, only 35 percent of the respondents said they feel at least somewhat connected to those in other countries.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
The study found that, in general, respondents who had traveled to at least one other country feel more connected to people around the world.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
The Pew researchers found that 77 percent of respondents from the Netherlands said they feel at least somewhat close to people all over the world.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
But international travel does not always mean a person feels a closeness to people around the world. Bright, the retired American schoolteacher, is one such exception.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
She said, “I don’t know a bunch of people around the world, just some.” And, she said, her connections to them are not especially deep.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
Pew researchers found a similar case in Sweden.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
In fact, a higher number of Indian respondents 68 percent report feeling at least somewhat close to people all over the world.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
Such findings show that international connectedness can be formed in ways other than traveling overseas.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
Sadikova, the Uzbek English teacher, told VOA Learning English she feels connected to people all over the world even though she has never traveled outside Uzbekistan.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How Connected Are You to the World?
She said, “Some years ago it was difficult for us to get information about people in the world, but currently, because of media, it is quite easy to get acquainted with events and…
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How Fluent Speakers Pronounce 'can'
Hi. I'm Tim and this is my pronunciation workshop. Here, I'm gonna show you how English is
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How International Students Should Think about Writing, AI
Students must learn academic writing and research methods when moving from high school to college. That is why universities require a first-year writing class
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How International Students Should Think about Writing, AI
As experienced students move on to higher degrees, they continue learning how to do research and to write for academic publications.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How International Students Should Think about Writing, AI
But learning the new writing methods can be difficult for international students, said Nat Smitobol.
- Public domaingeneral-american
How International Students Should Think about Writing, AI
the sources of the words and ideas in their academic writing. For those who come from other countries, this can be new.
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