Are we living too stressful?!

I am not a native American. When I was in my home town China, I started to learn American culture from all different ways. Movies, television, Internet, McDonald’s and Starbucks, all of these represent the American culture.
There are different perspectives from what we have in China. One thing that I found it most different is the life style the Americans behave. They are very time efficient. They not only work fast in their works but also live hurry in their life.
The advanced technology helps people to work much more efficient in US than other developing countries. This is positive because we are more productive than the others. However, the way we live here, especially in a metropolitan area like New York, is quite stressful. People need to hurry for subway, for lunch and even for shopping. They spend less and less time to relax, to keep healthy and to enjoy communications with family or friends. In China we always put family first. We pay a lot more attention for our family or friends. This change is not easy for me to get used to even though the life in China now seems to become similar to the life in US.

Welcome~~

Hello everyone! I'm Jiayu Chen from Baruch college. Nice to meet you all in this management class. I am a finance student and I transfered from BMCC one year ago. I also study actuarial science and I hope to see there would be someone who has the same interest with me. I wish we all have great time during this semester and hope to see you soon in class. Thanks!