What does Global Engagement Mean to Me?
Henry Leighton Wesleyan University Class of 2025
What does Global Engagement Mean to Me?
Henry Leighton Wesleyan University Class of 2025
Experiences and reflections broadly pertaining to intercultural interactions that I engage in apart from my academic study.
As I rode in a cable car in Taipei’s Maokong Gondola route, watching treetops pass by through the glass bottom, my friends decided that we should go around and each say “our type” of person that we find attractive. We ended up talking about dating in high school, touching on a notable cultural difference between …
I hesitated to write about this topic, because I did not want it to be misconstrued or generalized to reflect poorly on Taiwanese culture, or otherwise be understood as anything other than the isolated incident that I perceived it to be. I didn’t encounter anyone in Taiwan who shared the views of my first host …
Although the interview I had with the students from the American University in Cairo this week was mostly focused on my own culture and what I could provide to help them with their project, I was nevertheless struck by the ways in which the intercultural experience prompted me to think in ways that I don’t …
