at the beginning

Before I came to America, I had been told that when I came here, I would start concern more about everything happened in my homeland. At the very beginning, somehow, I doubted about these words. But now I agree with it strongly. Maybe because I have more time than when I was in China, I can do more things I like. Or maybe in America, being surrounded by various kinds of different cultural, I tend to compare them with Chinese Cultural. Or just simply, my personal attachment to China becomes more obvious than ever since I left it. I started to concern about every aspects of China, which including its history, economic, society, cultural and etc.
One of my everyday routine is to go to some websites to update my knowledge. And I find that after doing that for more than half a year, my understanding about the whole world has increased a lot.
Last year, China had been through series big events: the earthquake in Sichuan Province, some ugly things happened during the Olympic Torch Relay, the great Olympic Games, the rebellion in Tibet and that toxic milk powder event. The generation today in China is the generation being torched, and the generation being education by all of those. I am pleasant that I saw that Chinese people got united together to undergoing every disaster. And now I believe that it’s just a matter of time that China will return to one of the greatest countries again.
However, deal to deal. I also realized that the tradition Chinese culture now is losing its influence. Young Chinese people care less about it. I feel the responsibility of it. Passing the culture from generation to generation is never an easy job. Here I need to, and have to do this job starting from myself, to understand it, to popularize it and bring it back to the world stage.