a whole new world

I have tried to compare elementry kid students in Israel to elementry students in America. First off, students in Israel have more surrounding conflicts to distract them/or effect their life style. In Israel children are all affected by the Arab/Israeli conflict, directly in regards to family oriented, and also socially and culturally. Moreover, in most schools here another language, like English is intertwined into the school curriculum while as in America is it purely an option for a child to take another language that young. Overall, the contrasting life styles are interesting to think about, each child is still 9 years old, but in Israel he has to worry about joining the army in 9 more years or if his older sibling is going to come home, while I feel in America a 9 year old boy is surrounded my video games and wonders if his 18 year old brother will babysit for him this weekend or go out and party. They are two different life styles and two different worlds to grow up in.