British Woman Studying in Ohio Shares What ‘Shocked’ Her Most About America [Video]

A video of a university student from the United Kingdom explaining the “culture shock” of moving to Ohio for her studies has gone viral on TikTok.

The video was shared by Jemima Bennett (@jembennett__), a 22-year-old from Bristol, England, who is a student at UWE Bristol (University of the West England Bristol). “I study marketing and make content for traveling,” Bennett told Newsweek.

Bennett says the viral clip, which has garnered 1.1 million views since it was shared on October 24, “focuses on things that shocked me the most upon moving to America.” She noted that “these were things I was not aware of” and found to be “the biggest culture shock.”

The viral post comes as a record high of 1.1 million students from around the world were reported to have studied in the United States, marking a seven percent increase from 2022-2023, according to a report for the 2023-2024 academic year from the Institute of …