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It is true for everybody that they will change their dressing style and body adornment for different life phases. My dressing style also changed a lot through my life, and those changes were caused by distinct reasons. For now, I will dress like an American college student because I have come to US for four years. My classmates and the community will influence what I dress. I would like to wear a shirt with simple design and also jeans. Sometime I like to wear cloth pants and sports shoes. I do not like any adornment because I think adornment will make me feel uncomfortable. I will not have makeup or dye hair. I think my main value comes from my family and the community I live with. Having a simple life without too much things bothers me is what I view as the main value for me. I will make my choices based on my personal experience and the value system I have. As a college student, I do not view dress and adornment the most important way for me to express who I am. I think the most important thing is to learn and understand how to think differently to be an international student at America.

For my family, we all view dress as the basic necessary, and we just wear what we think can fulfill our need. We do not view dress as further required to make us look differently. However, this does not mean we do not express our values through the dress we have. It only means that we value toward dress are simple and easy. My father is the person who never buys clothes for himself, and he does not care about that. My mom will help my father to get what he needs, and each morning she will prepare a set of clothes for my father to wear on that day. My mom as a woman has more concerns about what she wears. However, she will not buy a lot of fashion clothes and change dress every day. She will only buy the clothes with classic style. She will wear one dress for several times a year, and this dress will last for several years. This means she has a constant dressing style instead of follow the popular style each year. In my opinion, this shows the value for the confidence to choose what she needs and will not be influenced by others. I am mainly influenced by my father’s dressing value, which view the clothes as the basic needs with no more functions.

As a student in the University of Oregon, my peer community is the college students. Most of the students here share similar values and we can find those values expressed through their dress and body adornment. People in University of Oregon love to play sport a lot because we have a strong sport culture in the campus. The value to have a better body with fitness and sport is expressed by the dresses from students here. Many students will wear sport shoes and sweatpants. Many of them will expose their muscles to show the strong body they have. This core belief affect my value system a lot when I came here as a student. I did not view fitness as necessary in the past, however, I start to do fitness after I came to Eugene because there are so many people doing that. Some of my friends are influenced by this value position even more deeply. They will eat healthy food and do fitness every day in order to make their body stronger.

As an international student who come from China, I have another peer community which is the Chinese friends who also study here. We all influenced by American culture and values, and we will influence each other as well. As a foreigner, we are trying to keep our traditional culture, and we adapt to the new culture at the same time. This becomes a new mix culture and value system for us to share as a community. Some of the Chinese students are very shy to meet with Americans because our tradition is subtle, and the traditional Chinese are not open. As a contrast, some of the Chinese students changed a lot to the American value, and become very open and outgoing. I have no idea to judge which one is better, and I think it is just the difference we need to adapt. For me, the community here really changed my value a lot compare the value I have before I came to America.

I took about one hour sitting outside of the Business Hall doing people watching, and I really love this observational experience. There were many people passing me and I would like to describe three people in detail. The first person is a man who was standing and waiting someone. He was wearing a white hoodie with the logo of the University of Oregon. He was wearing yellow trousers and a black Nike sneakers. This is a typical American college student we can see in the campus. He does not have any body adornment beside his dress. I think for him, the most important thing about being a college student is studying. I believe he does not pay much attention on social activities because he does not dress up well. His clothes are loosely which I believe makes him feeling not confident. I think he did not feel happy at the moment when I saw him, and I believe he may have some kind of study problem with his courses.

The second person I want to talk about is an Asian girl. She was wearing a short-sleeve shirt, and the main color of that shirt is pink and white. She had a backpack on her back and also a handbag on her arm. She was wearing light blue jeans with a white cloth shoes. She was wearing glasses, and there was also a bracelet on her hand. So far, I believe she must have taken many courses this term because she carried so many things for classes. The glasses may indicate that she studied hard which cause her the vision problem. Her clothes are relatively light colors which I believe is the favorite color style for her. There was not many body adornment beside the bracelet, and she did not have makeup at that time. I think this means she may not care about how she show up in front of the classmates.

The last person I want to mention is a strange guy. I called him strange guy because he looks like a woman with all the adornment he has on his body. He had makeup with red lipstick, and his face was bright with thick foundation. He was wearing a white shirt and a black body pants. He was also wearing a light yellow women’s handbag. I was shocked when I first see him. He is not the guy who looks like a woman with the delicate face and thin body, in contrast, he has a strong body and a fat face. I could not think the reason why he makes him as the way I saw. I think he may be grow with many girls, and he really got the influence for a stay with female surrounding. For me, it is unbelievable to dress up and act as a woman, which means my value system do not accept this kind of value that rebel the traditional mindset for gender.