Maria, ironically, learned that the United States is not singular in culture but multicultural while studying abroad. For example, she observed some of her fellow American students in Spain who were from Mississippi, and they would wear cowboy boots and tuck in their shirts. People in her home state dressed drastically different. While spending time with people from the same culture as you is often viewed as detrimental to learning during study abroad programs by some scholars in the field, Neriko critiqued this as assuming ________ 10 of students from that culture/country.
