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[MUSIC PLAYING]
MARIA LUK: Do you think that working, or living, or
studying in a different country makes a difference or
brings a difference to the way you view life or you view your
career and how it is important if it is important?
Is there anything you learned from living, or working, or
studying in a different country that you think makes a
difference?
JENNIFER MA: I think studying in the US has really help
equip me with the skills of problem solving.
Back then when I was in school I had no idea that I was going
to start a company of my own and I had no idea what kind of
problems that I was going to face on a daily basis.
But time changes and thing change and I'm sure it applies
to every field.
You can't really be prepared for what's happening in 10
years down the road.
So what you could be prepared for is to equip yourself with
people skills, and problem solving skills, and
communication skills which will help you solve any kind
of problem that you face in the future.
JONATHAN CHENG: I still believe that the US is still a
place where the power of ideas and these things are still
valued, and open debate, and all these sorts of things, and
cultivating someone who's genuine, someone who does what
they want to do.
And I think I found that among a lot of my friends,
especially some of my Chinese-Canadian or
Chinese-American friends whose parents wanted them to do this
particular path or that particular path.
And many of them when they got to college they found they
were actually able to be a little freer and to pursue
what it is that they really wanted to do.
So I now have a lot of friends who are doing something
completely different from the medicine track that they
thought they were going to do when they came in a a
freshman, or the law track or the engineering track that
they thought they were going to be doing.
So I'd say that's definitely a very good reason.
PETER RODDENBECK: I spent all my life in Rio on the beaches,
surfing, lots of beautiful girls all around.
It wasn't a place you could really sort of get in touch
with yourself.
It was very hedonistic and very superficial.
And I found when I got to college in the US I discovered
who I was because I was away from my family and I was away
from my friends.
I met all of these people who are knew so much more than me.
I felt so uneducated compared to them.
And I felt like an education in the US really sort of
unleashed who I became rather than restrained it.
And I think the choice of going overseas is difficult
maybe to leave you family and to go to a place that is
culturally different.
I left Brazil to go to the US.
It's not as different as Hong Kong to the US, but it's still
very different.
Latino way of life is very different to the
way Americans are.
But I sort discovered who I was and I was so much more in
touch with myself through the kind of education that I was
able to get there.