When you meet people from different backgrounds, sample foods with distinct flavor profiles and walk streets that look nothing like your hometown, your perspective begins to shift. By leaving behind the familiar, you...
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Intercultural Exchange at the International House
The International House, or I-House, seeks to bring together graduate students from all over the world attending universities in New York. Founded over 90 years ago, International House is a center of international cultural exchange for the 700 students living there. Adjibola Amzat, a news reporter from Nigeria who currently studies journalism at Columbia University, noted that “[w]ithout the International House, New York would have been a very, very lonely place for many people."
The full video is available from Voice of America here.
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