What foreign students can teach host families about America

An interesting article - thank you.

Very nice article! Every time I go to some Meetup (international BBQ,etc) I see a couple of parents bringing their small kids to play around, and every time I just wished more japanese parents did the same, to expose your kids to different cultures and different sets of people, just how wonderful this place would be without this japanese x foreigner mentality.... Unfortunately some people do pretty much the opposite. It happened to me last year, as soon as I walked out of my apartment a lady in her 40s passing by started "shielding" her 10yo daughter, almost to the point of stop walking so I could go ahead. Poor girl, her face clearly told me she didn't know what the heck was going on.