Aliens

Why do Americans ask you how you are, then not wait to hear the answer?

Filmed at Dartmouth College and made from interviews with Dartmouth International students, The Aliens: Being a Foreign Student shares the experiences of all international university students during their first months in the U.S. The DVD features excerpts from extensive interviews with six students from Trinidad/Tobago, Kenya, Singapore, Poland, India, and India/Singapore, revealing the questions all international students studying in the US have:

• Why are American first-year college students unsure about what they want to study? What is a "liberal education"?
• How can I make sense of American insistence on student professor interaction, cumulative testing, high-tech everything, and dropping or adding courses all the time?
• Why do Americans seem so friendly yet so difficult to get close to?
• Why are Americans so ignorant about the rest of the planet?
• Must I always be an "ambassador" of my country? And why can't I just be myself?