In “Polite but Thirsty” Yaping Tang tells about her culture shock and embarrassment when she moved to the US. She describes some differences between Chinese manners and American manners. She tells, “life is never smooth sailing . It requires a continual series of adaptations to new environments. This reminded me of an experience I had when I first came to the US. As we know, we always watch the movies, we heard in the news every day, we found traces of a country almost in every corner of our lives: America. The majority of people are admired this country which is America, or some of them are not interested with America. In the movies, we see American’s living standards and we say : “Wow, I had to live there.” I have come to a new country. I