September 21, 2009
Study Abroad Is Often Not All It Should Be
With communications now instant and 24/7, we know a great deal about events in other lands. Elections in Lebanon and election protests in Iran, missiles and captive journalists in North Korea, the anniversaries of D-Day in Europe and Tiananmen Square in China—we are constantly reminded that Thomas L. Friedman got it right: The world really is flat.
The importance of cross-cultural understanding is manifest. It is not surprising, then, that international education and
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