Alice CP#3

I met Hongru for the third time. Today we had a really interesting conversation on the cultural shock that he experienced coming to the U.S. He shared a lot of interesting facts about China, about its movie culture and social media culture. For example, all of the Western websites like Google, Twitter, Youtube etc. are banned in China. Also, all the movies with violence, blood, ghosts or drugs are banned. He explained quite in details all these differences, and we extended the topic introducing the concept of safety related to the type of community that people live in. He told me that in China police officers are not armed, and they are quite friendly. Then he shared a personal experience where a police officer in the U.S. pointed a gun to him just because when he first moved here he didn't know that, when a police officer pull you over from the street while you are driving, you have to remain inside you car. Hongru told me that in China you always get out from the car. In this occasion the police officer immediately pointed the gun to him, and I can only imagine how shocking that experience was for Hongru,