How do they think of us?

I never thought about what people thought about "us" until I was at this years past Super Bowl. A foreign salesman spoke about people in the United States buying habits. He said "Americans you like to borrow things and bring them back". at first I paid the comment no attention but it still lingers in my mind. Is this what some people think of us abroad or is this just on salesman in a luxury department store just rambling. When I meet people especially from other universities in the area Hampton University and Old Domninion University at some point I ask them what they think about me being a student at NSU. Usaually their comments are negative and usally are not true especially from the HU students. That's what they think about "us" not just myself but any student they come in contact with from NSU. It's not fair but I think certain things about them to some things are true but a lot of the times I learn something that I didnt expectfrom them. So what people think about "us" really doesn't matter whether its "us" as Americans or "us" as students it's a lot of misconceptions that need to be straightened out.


All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
-Michael Jackson

On to the next one

Life is about changing and improving on what is already here. That's where the diffusion of innovation comes into play. Every time something is thought of someone immediately thinks of an idea to do it better or spread the idea to more people. Just look at the idea of twitter at first many of my friends weren't on to this graet new innovation of social networking. As time went on though and many of them converted once they recognized many of our friends and celebrities hopping on the twitter wave. Twitter proveed to have a relative advantage over the previous form of social networking which was Facebook and prior to that Myspace. Twitter now proved to be the outlet for ideas and a peek into a persons thoughts and ideas. The new outlet twitter was less complex and allowed you to pick who you wanted to listen to and hear their opinion. The prior social networks had gotten overwhelming and people started to shy away and find a new way to network. I guess that's life as rapper Jay Z would say "on to the next one".