Compare And Contrast My First Coming To America

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When I first arrived in the United States, I was very surprised at everything. This is a country completely different from my country, whether it is language, race, background, and even political system, relative to China, like a mirror in the outside and outside, is the two extremes. For me, these are unfamiliar. Before I came to the United States I never thought I would be in such an environment, in such a completely unfamiliar, I do not enter the country to start my new

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