Advantages And Benefits And Challenges Of Cultural Diversity In University

Cultural diversity is a complex concept, which combines different characteristics and knowledge of a society together (Cathryn, Yong & Robert 2008, p.58). University is a huge society combined students from different places, even different countries. In university, cultural diversity provides benefits and drawbacks to students. This essay will discuss how three opponents can be changed into assets, such as cultural acceptance, loss of original culture, and slowing down the pace of classes.

One problem is that people in multicultural education system need to understand other cultures, and this is not always easy. Different culture also means different habits, knowledge, and experiences. In most of the universities, the first year students should

For students, the language barrier is a huge problem they will face when they study aboard, and this language barrier exists because most of the places with different cultures have the different language. For foreign students, especially those second language learners, it will not be easy to understand what professors told in class as local students. This is not good for students grade and also means students have to spend extra time to study. Also, the language barrier leads to more work for the professors, because foreign students will ask more questions to help themselves to understand the knowledge. So professors have to spend lots of time to explain the knowledge and help those students to understand. Although language barrier will cause extra work for both students and professors, the language barrier problem can be solved. For example, when foreign students go to America to study, they have to take tests like TOEFL, which is an important English language skill test for foreign students to study in the English-speaking country, and this test will show if the student has the ability to study in the English-speaking country or not (ets 2017). When foreign students pass those tests, they will have enough English language skill for study in the English-speaking country. This kind of test help universities to make sure that their students can overcome the language barrier and study in their school same with other local students. Even it is almost impossible for foreign students to have the good language skill as the local students, passing this test makes those students have less language barrier and reduces this