Here is the first page of the article that Cici prepared for her cross-cultural marketing program.  We are promoting it on our law firm website and she will promote it on her blog.  It is written prospectively, as you can see, because it is for use in China this summer.  I am happy to see that she has taken a real interest in this marketing idea.  I have learned that if I just give her an idea she will run with it if she thinks it is worthwhile.

The Solomon Law Firm, P.C.

Houston, Texas, USA

Is the Proud Sponsor

of

 

Life in America

Perspectives of a Teenage Chinese Girl

            Ni hao.  My name is Angela Tianjiao Solomon.  I was born in China and lived in China until I moved to America when I was fifteen years old.  It was two years before I returned to China, and when I returned to China, it was as a visitor.  I even had to get a visa in order to return to China, because I have an American passport now.  This felt very strange to me, because China was always my home.  I love China and missed China very much while I was away, but I learned a lot while living in America for two years. 

            One thing I learned is that people are people, no matter where they live.  By that I mean that there are happy people and unhappy people, beautiful people and not so beautiful people, nice people and rude people, whether one is living in China or in America.

            The city where I live in America is one of the most culturally diverse cities in America, so I have studied with classmates who came to America from other countries such as Korea, Vietnam, and Mexico.  In my entire high school, though, there are currently no other students from China, or at least none who speak Chinese. 

            In my freshman year in high school, there was a Chinese girl in my school who was a senior, but she graduated and went to another city in America to attend college.  In my sophomore year, a Chinese girl began attending my school, but she doesn’t speak Chinese, so we have little in common even though we each have a Chinese heritage.