Cultural exchange hour with Wyvern. We follow the show ''The World We Want'', organized by the New York Herald Tribune. Foreign exchange students talk about their experience in the United States of America. This episode is from 1958.

The students won competitions organized by the education ministries of their countries. Pan American World Airways and Trans World Airlines were responsible for transporting them. Their last week in the United States was spent in John Jay High School in Lewisboro, New York.

The Israeli chick had fun ice-skating.

The Ethiopian dude experienced skiing for the first time and found it funny. The Egyptian dude liked snowball fights and cheerleaders.

The host mentions how the students were all extremely polite and well-bred people when they first arrived and one student replies ''Now we're Americanized''.

The Danish dude bought a statue of Hotei, the god of happiness in Chinatown for 15 bucks. It was made in Japan. This deity is known as Budai in China. He is also called the Laughing Buddha and the Fat Buddha. He bought it because Danes need happiness.

The French chick with a very French name (Françoise) bought books at Brentano's bookstore. The books: New Poets of England and America, Philosophies of India, The Art of Thinking by Ernest Dimnet, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, and The Wisdom of China and India.

The Greek chick with the lovely noose necklace also bought books: translations of Indian manuscripts, A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell, Principles of Art History by Heinrich Wölfflin, a book on the history of Western civilization and some art books.

The Malay chick also spent money on books, 60 dollars. It was ''peanuts'', intervenes the French chick, using American lingo to describe something cheap.

The Indian dude (left) liked mashed potatoes and the Egyptian dude bought some kitchen utensils for his mother including an egg white separator, something to cut chicken and opens bottles and cans. The Ethiopian dude bought records and albums, about 30, including rock and roll.

The British dude (center) also bought records, including music from Tom Lehrer, Pete Seeger and modern jazz.

The Nigerian chick bought records, a camera and an electric shaver for her father.

The Thai dude bought Ivy League pants.

The Vietnamese chick bought clothes, crinoline specifically. We've heard what some of these people bought and liked, next questions is what would they like to take with them from America.

The Danish guy (left) would bring a cheerleader home with him. The guy from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) would like to bring home a plate of pizza.

The French chick would like to bring an ice-cream factory home and the Lebanese dude would like a blonde with a thunderbird.

The chick from Malaya would like to bring snow home, the host implies she's from Singapore. The Iranian chick would like to bring home a red Cadillac. The Jordanian dude desires a helicopter. The host comments on how they're all materialistic.

The guy from Ceylon would like to bring a girl home but the host reminds him: ''I said immaterial!''.

The guy from Ghana would like to bring home the degree of friendliness American families have. He likes how American fathers play with their sons and daughters.

The guy from Yugoslavia would like to take home the New York Public Library and New York's Museum of Modern Art.

The Korean chick would like to take the host home!

The Moroccan dude seconds that proposal and adds the Empire State Building and the United Nations to the list.

The Pakistani chick would take a department store because she bought some slacks and Bermuda shorts there. The other students tease her for wearing an American dress previously because she initially refused to. Americanization spares no one.

Ethiopian dude would take home the whole studio. The next question is what will they do once they come back home. Ethiopian dude has to take an exam, make up for some subjects he missed and do a report for a newspaper.

The Greek chick with the lovely noose necklace around her neck would like to evaluate some ideas she learned in America. I hope those ideas include a fashion sense. The next question is about how their preconceived ideas about America turned out.

The French chick thought Americans danced to rock and roll in the streets. The Greek chick thought that people are very free and independent in the United States but doesn't think that anymore. The Greek chick was more intuitive in 1958 than most of humanity half a century later.

The Filipina chick thought Americans could dance to rock and roll better than Filipinos but hasn't been impressed so far by Americans in the dancing department.

The Jordanian guy thought Americans went to school for fun.

The chick from Malaya thought most American students were juvenile delinquents. Everyone laughs.

The Vietnamese chick thought she'd meet some cowboys upon arriving but the first cowboy she met was the Egyptian dude, Ahmed.

Lebanese dude thought Americans manufactured cars just to make accidents.

The Moroccan dude thought Americans were always drunk, a view based on witnessing how American soldiers in his country behaved.

The Turkish dude seconds this view.

Sudanese dude here thought everything in America was mechanical, meaning done by machines, but found Americans to be hard-working people and mentions how husbands help serve supper and so on after they return home from office work.

Another thing he noticed is how in Sudan high school graduates are seen as an elevated class but in America, high school graduates work jobs like janitors.

The German dude was relieved to see that the typical American youngster was not like Elvis Presley.

The Nigerian chick thought all Americans were very rich but saw that most of them work for their dollars.

The Icelandic snowman thought America was the most advanced country in technology but realized that after every snowfall everything shuts down, including trains. He's never experienced something like that in Iceland.

The Thai dude thought Americans were very punctual but realized this was not the case at all. They say a show starts at 8:30 but doesn't start until 9:00 for example.

The Ethiopian dude was sure he'd meet an Indian (the American variety) riding on a horse downtown with feathers on their head but he didn't meet any.

The Egyptian dude thought his host family would make him do chores like babysitting, washing the dishes and mopping the floors but he didn't do much as chores go.

The French chick did some babysitting. Her expectations were that American children would be noisy and not brought up well but found them to be well behaved and quiet. ''You put them in front of the TV and you can do anything you want''.

The Indian dude (Asian variety) found Americans to be more sentimental than he thought. They like to relax after a nice dinner and reminisce about grandma's cakes.

The next topic is unanswered questions about America. The Korean chick is puzzled why American teachers and professors aren't respected at all.

The Indian dude here disagrees. He thinks that Americans have more intelligent respect for teachers than Indians do and likely more respect than Koreans have for their teachers. He says respect for teachers in India is mostly stuffy and formal.

The British guy is of the view that teachers are outearned by truck drivers, Ford workers and funeral directors. An India and England argument here is noticed by the host. Almost all of them think teachers in their countries earn more respect than American teachers do.

The Jordanian dude says teachers are viewed as messengers of God in Jordan.

Korean respectability rank:
1. intellectuals
2. farmers
3. businessmen

The Vietnamese chick proposes adding soldiers to rock bottom but the Korean chick disagrees.

Iranian chick says you have to respect teachers in Iran more than you respect your own parents.

Thai dude says that teachers in Thailand exercise corporal punishments for ignorance and rule-breaking. They hit your hands for minor offences and spank you for major offences.

Moroccan dude says that going to school on Sunday morning is a form of punishment in Morocco.

Pakistani chick mentions a unique form of school punishment in Pakistan where you hold your ears and alternate between crouching and standing up but it's going out of fashion. She even demonstrates it.

You say something like toba, toba. You're basically promising not to do it again. Sometimes you do it for 15 minutes and outside in the sun.

The Israeli chick says her English teacher would punish her for disturbing lessons by having her copy lines. It helped her learn the language.

Brazilian chick finally opens her mouth. No school punishments in her experiences.

Iranian chick says school punishments in Iran consist of standing up for an hour with your hands raised. It's only applied in grade schools.

The guy from Ceylon says boys in higher classes have to do pushups if they fail to do their homework. He's done 50 pushups as a punishment himself.

Filipino chick says teachers in the Philippines used to throw erasers at students and make them hold a pencil with their mouths but not anymore. She mentions a school punishment she discovered in a school in Westfield, New Jersey. It's math!

Yugoslav dude says teachers lose respect for you as a punishment in Yugoslavia.

Icelandic dude says sitting on whalebone is a form of school punishment in Iceland.

French chick says they double your intellectual work as a school punishment in France.

Korean chick says teachers beat male students with a rod as a form of punishment in Korea (South, ofc). She's laughing but people are aghast.

Japanese chick gets a word for the first time. They don't have any school punishments like the ones mentioned before and Japanese parents like to complain to schools when their children are punished. Sugoi, desu ne?

Indonesian chick finally gets a word too. They have a cool school punishment in Indonesia. You're not allowed to go to school for 15 days. A temporary school suspension basically but everyone laughs.

Ethiopian dude says they make you pick up trash and rocks from the soccer field on Saturday as a form of school punishment. This guy has answered every question or nearly every question while the students from Italy, Finland, Panama, South Africa and Argentina didn't get a word!

Now students try to guess what the point of all this was. Sudanese dude bloviates something about desires being fulfilled and new ideas and personalities.

Indian dude talks about international relations that are more human, individual and personal. He now first views people in terms of personalities rather than nationalities. Yep, Americanized.

Norwegian gal says it's easy to be critical of the United States but found the place unique & fascinating, where people turn ideas into realities. She says Europeans view Americans as materialistic, concerned more with the concrete than abstract yet idealistic people flourish.

They sing some crap in Latin and that's it. A link if you want to see the episode yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=yhfGybXJDsM