I was awarded for my excellent performance and entered into the school' s Dean's List. For the first time in my life I felt rewarded as if all the effort that I put in on that preceding academic year was compensated. This is something that I never felt before, back in my original country. In Brazil, people tend to work twice as hard as they do here because of the lack of opportunities and they are almost never recognized. From all I have experienced Iwould say that competition is the main reason.
Competition is what motivates and inspires students and workers to make such grand progress.
In other words, for being such a competitive nation, the U.S. is now where it stands. In Brazil, people tend to be apathetic because competition is not implicit. Therefore, we are recklessly labeled as the subordinate culture and underestimated by your society. On the other hand, with all the labeling and misjudgment we undergo in your country, we are hospitable people, always curious, and open-minded to learn more and more by the achievements of your country. The word transculturating simply means one culture adapting a piece of another culture in a non-contradictory manner to its own.