As a first year student and a foreigner in the university of British Colombia, everything here is new and fresh to me. Observing local people’s behavior is one of my habit now. Since UBC is a very international school, one thing I observed is that students tend to make friend with those people use the same language, same race and from the same country.

From chapter2, we learnt that personality is determined and affected by heredity, culture or background and present situation. All these three factors equally and significant affect one person’s personality. According to those three determinants, people who come from the same region and accepted similar education are more likely to have common things in their personality. And most people especially younger generation would like to make friend with people who have similar personality.

From my experience, Chinese students seems hard to get into Canadian students’ social network, while Canadian students don’t seems interested in Chinese Students’ life. That might not be hard to understand, we watched different cartoons, read different books, like different singers through our early years. That all result in a huge difference between Chinese student and Canadian student in every aspect. When we first know someone, common interests will always make people acquaint with each other faster. Therefore, we are naturally attracted by peers from the same country.

However, I personally think to obtain a high quality, long-run stable friendship is more about the commen values shared by friends. We may attracted by common hobbies and personalities easily, but common values between friends usually make friendship lasts long. According to the knowledge we learned through chapter3, two persons who have terminal value for example are more likely to keep a stable relationship since they are both inspired by the fulfillment of their goals.

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