Cultural Influence

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Cultural Influence: The Creative Thinking Difference with Study in the Australia and the Netherlands
Hendrik Wang
Saxion University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
INTRODUCTION:
Many scholars has been noted that the relationship between studying abroad and creative thinking. According to Brian J. Hurn and Barry Tomalin (2013), there are advantages and disadvantages of study abroad, in particular the advantages of cultural diversity, including increased skills, new ideas and creativity and the disadvantages of pressure on the existing welfare services, housing and education. Moreover, Christine s. Lee stated that creative thinking as a possible cognitive benefit gained from studying abroad (2012). But why creative thinking has so strong relationship …show more content…

It can be seem from the results in Chart 1 that international students who studying in Netherlands has a better creative thinking than the international students who studying in the Australia. In comparison to previous research with other studies. Christine stated that students who studied abroad generated more original ideas on both a culture specific and a domain general creativity test compared with students who have not studied abroad (2012). Annie Murphy Paul (2014) claims that the serendipitous creative benefits resulting from multicultural experiences. So why study abroad is one of most important method of creative thinking and why study in Netherlands difference with Australia? According to Christine and David and Tracy (2012), cultural experiences gained from studying abroad is the variable that accounts for increased creative thinking in the cultural domain. Personally, when students studying abroad, the newly things is an important reason of creative thinking. This affects to help students make a better choice of which country more suitable for study and which programme has a better education source for creative thinking. Finally, we hope that investigating relationship between creative thinking and varieties of different ages in future …show more content…

On the Cognitive Benefits of Cultural Experience: Exploring the Relationship between Studying Abroad and Creative Thinking. CHRISTINE & DAVID & TRACY, USA: Author.
Appendices
APPENDIX A
Instruction
The task you are about to take involves three activities. The activities will give you a chance to see how good you are at thinking up new ideas and solving problems. They will call for all of the thinking ability you have. For each of the prompts, list only one idea. You will be given 3 minutes to respond for each prompt. (University of Florida & Georgia Southern University, 2012)
Activity 1: Just suppose you studying in United States of America rather than Netherlands or Australia, can you give me a point about what kind of creative thinking you change?

Activity 2: Each year a great many Chinese tourists go to foreign countries to visit. But now suppose that our country wanted to get many more people from foreign countries to come to Chinese during their vacations. What steps can you suggest that would get many more foreign people to come to this country as tourists? (University of Florida & Georgia Southern University,

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