Compare Dita and Masika Z. Smith

I am going to compare the case of adjust in the United States which is Dita story and Masika Z. Smith story. There are a lot of similarity and differences. First of all, I will talk about the differences about two cases. They are come from different places. Dita is come from Indonesia and Masika is come from Democratic Republic of Congo in Central Africa. Their period of living in USA also different, Masika have living in the United States for seven years. And Dita have living in the United States only for one semester. Moreover, Masika was married with a white man. But, Dita is only a student. That means, Masika has a family in the United States. Actually, she made her family in the United States. But Dita has no family in the United States. She is alone. Obviously she did not marry. There has a difference of them about their place where they live in the United States. Masika is West Texas. And Dita is Boston for studying. Masika came to the United States for a bachelor's degree in psychology from a small liberal arts college in West Texas. And Dita had been awarded a full scholarship by the Indonesian government to attend college in the United States. According to Masika’s talking with counselor and she began believing in her ability and herself. She had a passion to study her own and her work. But Dita was not. Because of her feeling of tired and hard, she still got a low grades on her quizzes, tests, and her essay with talking with her professor or discussion out. It means, Dita had not her passion to study very hard at the college.

But, there has also lots of similarity on both of them. First of all, they both are international student. Actually, they are not Native American. Therefore they do not have the perfect English skill yet. And they are women. There are a lot of similarity between their feeling of adjust and adapt to the United States. They both were felt it is not suitable and appropriate about them and their culture. Such as they were had problem about foods, weather, and no friends in there. That mean is they were lonely. They were also had a problem on communicate with their friends, professor, and roommate. I think they actually did not enjoy and love about living in the United States. Obviously, they both were felt about culture shock during the move to the United States. Feelings related with this phase included shock, scare, disappointment, anger and confusion. And they were hard to understand their class. They had conversation with counselor for get some suggestions about how to adjust better to the United States. But the results were not very good. They are hoping to change their life better adjust in the United States. From the starting to the ending, they always carry, worry about their America life. And also think about what is the problem on them.