Hi Besty, There is no single “American” viewpoint about most things, and definitely not about most other countries that most Americans tend to not be familiar with in their ordinary lives. So the specific details of your American man will matter. Where in the US is he from? Is he from a big city in that region, or a smaller town? What race is he (I think you might make him white/European heritage automatically, but you don’t have to, and it could be interesting to choose another race). Is he religious? Which religion? What is his attitude about it? Americans who teach English in most countries have to have a university (in the US we say “college”) degree, so your character needs one, but the details matter for his background: what kind of school did he go to, Harvard or his local state university? Something in between? Did he pay for his tuition with loans? A scholarship (what kind)? Did his parents pay his tuition? What kind of student was he? Nowadays Americans with college degrees are very different from those who don’t have them. All of these aspects shape your character’s worldview, including how much knowledge he has about South Korea and why he chose to go there, and why he chose English teaching as a job or career (not the same thing). A certain type of American young man would choose teaching English in another country, and he would not be the stereotype of the ignorant, arrogant “cowboy”. I can think of certain kinds of Americans who would 1) know just enough about Korea to 2) look down on it, but all the social details should make it clear that’s who you are creating. There should be a reason why he’d do that. I can think of other Americans, with different social backgrounds and worldviews, who do not look down on Korea. Maybe because it isn’t relevant to them (how relevant is Idaho to people in Seoul?) or maybe because they know something about Korea and admire it. So these details matter. Who is this American character?