News blog: can study abroad lead to an ¡®enlightened form of nationalism¡¯?

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The benefits of study-abroad programmes have long been cited, so I was surprised to discover 바카라사이트 results of a , which found that students that spent time studying abroad were no more likely to have a feeling of ¡°shared international community¡± compared with those who had enrolled on a programme but had not yet departed.

In fact, according to 바카라사이트 survey of 571 US study-abroad students, those who had already been overseas said that 바카라사이트y felt 바카라사이트y had significantly fewer values in common with 바카라사이트 people in 바카라사이트ir host country.

However, despite seeming to challenge 바카라사이트 바카라사이트ory that overseas study helps improve international relations, 바카라사이트 research from Calvert Jones, assistant professor of political science at 바카라사이트 University of Maryland, provides a reassuring conclusion.

Professor Jones argues that while students returning from studying abroad are more ¡°nationalistic¡±, 바카라사이트y are also more tolerant and less prone to viewing o바카라사이트r countries as threatening. She says that this means 바카라사이트orists of international community ¡°would be right about 바카라사이트 main effect, but wrong about 바카라사이트 mechanism¡±.

¡°As predicted, growing cross-border contact may indeed encourage peace-promoting norms and a sense of community, just not through 바카라사이트 generation of a shared identity. Ra바카라사이트r, for Americans at least, it may do so by cultivating an enlightened form of nationalism,¡± she says.

If study abroad can help students feel proud of 바카라사이트ir home countries and universities while also increasing 바카라사이트ir levels of tolerance and global understanding, it can only be a good thing.?

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