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Need for democracy brings student to U.S.

 

Are you interested in learning about Pakistan? When I first came to the U.S., I noticed that the way of the life here is different from my country. There are many differences between the U.S. and my home country such as jobs, languages, and government.

The first difference is the job market. In my home country finding work is hard, because we don’t have enough infrastructure technology or enough people who are educated and able to work.  People work from early in the morning until late at night, but they get little money. In my country, they pay you daily or monthly. If you have a better education and you are doing well, you can get better pay. If you are an employee and your boss knows that you can handle the business, they still won’t let you become a manager. They won’t believe in you and they’ll think that you might create a problem for the business. Also, in my country they don’t have people who are educated and know how to work, because education is expensive. So if people don’t have an education, how they can get a job? People are poor and they can’t pay the school fee to get a good education.

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In the U.S. they have better infrastructure, better jobs for the people, because the people are educated, smart, have skills, and are able to do work properly. In the U.S. they pay you hourly or monthly, so people can get money faster and they can live easier. In the U.S. education is free and people have access to it, but in Pakistan they don’t, because of getting money late, so they don’t have  money to purchase their supplies or pay their children school fees. I like the U.S. work way, because it’s better than my country.

The U.S. is called the land of immigrants, because the people here came from all over the world. All these people speak different languages. In the beginning, it’s hard for everybody to speak English. It’s kind of hard, but you have to learn it. Also, if you should go to school, they teach foreign languages life French, Spanish, and Arabic. If you don’t study foreign language at school you cannot graduate. It also helps you to make twice money at a job, if you have learned a foreign language. In my country they don’t teach you foreign languages in high school, because it’s not necessary to graduate. Most schools teach Urdu and a few international languages. They don’t teach English that much, just a little bit, so it is hard for some students to read and write. Those people who go to English speaking countries and then return to their country know how to speak and write. Otherwise people are smart, but they aren’t interested in learning foreign languages.

The U.S. government is different from that of my country, because in the U.S. they have a strong democracy and presidential system. In the U.S. if there is a bad situation in a city or state the government is responsible for solving the problems; the army will not interrupt the system of government. In my country they have weak democracy and presidential system; when the flood came and hit the country very badly, the army helped the people instead of the government. The government told the people of Pakistan that the people didn’t pay taxes so that’s why we couldn’t help the people when flood hit the country. In the U.S. everybody has to pay taxes so that the government can help people when they need help. It’s illegal to not pay taxes in the

U.S. If people don’t pay taxes the government will send them to jail. In my country they don’t have infrastructure; that’s why some people pay taxes, but not everyone.

Therefore, people create problems because they know that no one is going to arrest them and the country is not advancing. I like American government laws and rule regulations. If my government becomes a true democracy like the U.S.,  it will progress.

Pakistan and the U.S. are different in terms of jobs, languages, and government. There are more differences, but the three I discussed here are what stood out more when I came to the U.S. I’m happy to live in the U.S., but I still miss my country.

 

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