Writing Across Borders

I found the video impressive indeed, especially for its runaway story of educational fame and revelry. In terms of the ideas it presented it felt very similar to the Delpit article, which I believe was fully on purpose. I find it fascinating that all it takes to get this subject blown wide open is to just let people talk about it, in whatever manner they want to, and to let the audience judge for themselves.

Something that I thought was curious about the video was that all of these international students seemed to answer the questions that they were asked very directly. Since many of them claimed that the writing style of their home culture was contrary to this, I found it strange that their verbal communication style didn't reflect this.

Some theories:
(1) the questions of the interviewers required a direct answer. Perhaps we ought to look closely also at the questions we ask.
(2) the students have been in the country long enough to pick up our colloquialisms and manner of speech.