The fellowship I'm about to apply requires me to describe how I could be a cultural representative of my country when studying abroad, and how I might serve a representative of the country I study in when return back home. I have never thought about that.

At first, I think about helping other students to reach their dreams or being a connector between two countries are the examples of a cultural representative. However, thinking again, I don't feel it is enough. Yes, doing those will help my country, but any student from any country can also do that. I think being a cultural representative must have these two conditions:

1. Bringing endemic things from my home (that only some limited places in the world have)
2. Have an impact to local people

So far, the only satisfied thing that I can think about is... food. Being the hard working student or not a prodigal are satisfied 2, but cannot satisfied 1 cause everybody can do so.

The fellowship I'm about to apply to requires me to describe how I could be a cultural representative of my country when studying abroad, and how I might serve as a representative of the country I study in when I return back home. I have never thought about that.

At first, I thought about helping other students to reach their dreams or being a connector between two countries as the examples of a cultural representative. However, thinking again, I don't feel it is enough. Yes, doing those will help my country, but any student from any country can also do that. I think being a cultural representative must have these two conditions:

1. Bringing endemic things from my home (that only some limited places in the world have)
2. Have an impact to local people

So far, the only satisfactory thing that I can think about is... food. Being a hard working student and not a prodigal are satisfying 2, but cannot satisfy 1 because everybody can do so.