I need to interview someone for a report for my college class. Here is the discription of what I am needing and the questions. \n"For your project, you will conduct an interview with someone who has a culture distinct from yours and write a paper about his or her experiences. Interview subjects could include, but are not limited to:\nAn immigrant to your home country (I live in the USA)\nA Person of a different race or ethnicity (I am white and American)\n\nLet me know if you can help me out with this. I will give you some of the questions below, but they won't all fit here. \n1. What is your culture about? What are your values?\n2. Does your culture have any rituals or routines that you practice on a regular basis?\n3.  In your culture, whom do you look to as a higher power? I.e. who makes the decisions on how your culture is run?\n4. Are there any stories or myths that have been made up about your culture?\n5. Is your culture accepted or not accepted in today’s society?\n9 more left
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Sounds like this professor is looking for a sob story of a mexican immigrant to build their own internal case.  Whether or not you believe in immigration laws or not you should play to your teacher's desire and write a sob story about someone who came over.
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Jeez, calm the hell down. I can't believe that you are so sensitive to things. Look, I agree there are some things on here that are racist and some blatantly racist. But the easiest thing to do is either go to a different category, or report the questioner. Do not bring Iraq into this. This is different ok. This ethnic diversity in this country is unlike any other in the world. The largest human experiment referred to as a melting pot is the first and only of its kind in human history. In the past, when a race first meets another race, they want to kill them, conquer them, and this makes them feel superior. I realize there are exceptions to this but the majority of the time this is the truth. So its human nature to do this. Its just like if there is a huge room full of people of all races with the lights off, you will talk to and be with whoever is next to you but once the lights go on, all races will eventually segregate on their own over time. This is human nature. But what can be done is tolerate those who are unlike yourself. This is how we have grown as a nation and why we are so strong today. Most other countries have one major minority group. The US has every minority, so if someone tells you or I that they aren’t as racist in Japan or France, that’s because they aren’t in a melting pot society where they are forced to deal with human instincts regarding other races on a daily basis and create biases and stereotypes. So in reality, this country is one of the least racist because the majority of society here has learned tolerance. I am white, and I have been racially discriminated against and profiled. I live in an area where if you are white, you are either lost, or rich and lost. So I get f-ed with all the time. But I have thick skin. You sir do not. I am sad to see that someone who has a genuine ability to convey their feelings in a grammatical and tactful way is going to throw that away because of some a-holes on computers somewhere. A person’s input in these answer columns are very important to some people and I myself have felt like this is the only place to have someone respond to a problem I have. Has anyone benefited from your input in a crisis of their own? When someone chooses you as a best answer, do you feel like you have helped someone? Well I hope you reconsider and just keep helping those you can. If not, fare thee well. I hope the world benefits from you another way.
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They are good general questions.  Ask her about her experiences teaching the class too.  Try to start more of the questions without the word "what" at the beginning.\n\nHow is this class unique?\nName some interesting features of this class?\nIs there something specific that you think attracts students to this class?  \nDescribe your favorite assignment in this class and some past good experiences please. \nWhy should students take this class?
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Can it be about some place you've traveled? About a person you admire? Is there any specific topic it is supposed to be focused on? My suggestion would be to pick a topic you feel sooooo familiar with and that you enjoy. A sport......a celebrity.......a place......and then go to town. If your paper is about something you love, you'll whip it out in no time. I can see you getting started and then not even realizing you've gone over 3 pages. Just be sure to pick a topic you enjoy and know a great deal about from personal experience. I hope this helps!
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These are very hard questions to answer because all of our lives we've been taught to never bragg or speak about ourselves too much.  But that is exactly what they are trying to get you to do.  They want to know what qualities you have that someone else doesn't.  Discuss your work habits/ethic, how you are willing to come in early and stay late, just to make sure the job is done and done right.  As far as your education, before you go to the interview think of a class you've taken or a project that could someway, anyway relate to the business.  I was an Ag major and was interviewing with my current company that manufactures printed boxes, and they asked that question.  I had taken a forestry class in college(thought it was rediculous), but I just raved about how intersted I was after that class and just spouted off some random things that I had learned that could pertain to paper board.  It's fine to make a stretch just don't out right lie.  And never say I don't know.
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have u ever heard about the lost tribe of israel? make the jewish guy a researcher in archelogy or ethnology or something like that; he will find, through a long journey, that this lost tribe has vanished in indonesia; he will meet a indonesian professor of ilterature, who will be a member of a secret association gathering last members of this lost tribe who practice some dance ritual each time they meet.\nthat's a good summary
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1. Answer this question: Why do I want to study international development?\n\n2. What are the goals I hope to achieve?\n\n3. How will my experience and education help me in inernational development?\n\n4. Are you interested in history, sociology, business, environmental issues,  anthropology and cultural studies?\n\n5. Do you know anything about the major world religions?\n\n6. Have you worked with people to help them, educate them, or managed or supervised people.\n\n7. Would you like to live in a foriegn country???? Do you speak any foriegn language????\n\nThe foregoing will give you a good start on you purpose statement.\n\nIn the future you will be called upon to write many purpose statements for the progams that you will be supervising!!!!! You will need to be able to state clearly your objectives and goals.\n\nInternational studies  is complicated and includes many factors.\n\nHere is some advice: BE SURE THAT THIS IS WHAT YOU ARE INTERESTED IN DOING. Answer this question: Why do I want to study international studies????\n\nWhen you have answered that question  ask youself this question: Are the any other professions I may be interested in???\n\nIf you need help determining what professions would interest you take an interest test. An inerest test is a psycological that relates success in given professions with patterns of inerest. There are several interest tests, one that I know of is called the Kuder  Interest Survey.  \n\nGOOD LUCK!!
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Here is a site about ritual questions:\nhttp://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002263.html
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do try to ask or answer questions that devoids cultural prejudices. Some people tend to be sensitive over some issues. If you're really ok, then maybe some people just dont feel too friendly toward you. If someone turned down your offer of friendship, move forward, anyway there are lots of people out there who can be your friends
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Besides fast food and hate what is American culture.  Please don't tell me freedom, or you would not be asking such a ridiculous question.  Part of becoming a better person is remembering where you came from.  Besides unless you are a Native Indian you too come from immigration.  How much do you know about the struggles that brought your people to America?
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I have seen two great research project done by students:\n\n1. Research the history, symbolism, and meaning behind the Sugar Hill Gangs "Rapper's Delight." Question such as, "What is the true meaning of Rapper's Delight" or "What is the cultural signifacance of Rapper's Delight."\n\n2. "How did Nachos come to be?"\n\nOh and one last idea: What about researching where all our social idioms come from (for ex: raining cats and dogs, kicked the bucket, hit the lights...)\n\nGood luck with your project!
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You can pick any you feel comfortable with.  "Mixed" is often an option on questionaires, etc where you have to fill that out. \n\nI am sure you are just lovely- don't be labled by anyone.  We're all a mix of cultures.  Talk to your parents about your struggle, they can help.
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I'm American.The individual people or the ones that they meet they find agreeable/likable however if you come from a place with more structure or is not quite so fast paced,American culture could be daunting in its immenseness and/ or lack of traditional culture(perception-compared to other countries). My mom was from Bay Springs, Mississippi and came to visit me in San Diego,California. It was a little scary for her.Image what it must look like to a person from a whole different country. It mostly depends on what you are use/accustomed to. We are a country of immigrants so our culture is rich and varied.
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C'mon people, let's be constructive.......poor lolit is just trying to get some help!  \n\nI would suggest going from a general topic and then getting more and more specific.  So, maybe your general topic is:\n\nAcademic Achievement\n\nThen you read a few articles on the topic and see some that have looked at the relationship between academic achievement and parental involvement--but with conflicting results!  \n\nThen, you read a few articles on academic achievment and parental involvement, get an idea about what kind of research is being conducted, and maybe you see that nobody has compared the effects of parental involvement on student acheivement across races......so now we are getting more specific....race and the relationship between academic achievement parental involvement. \n\nThen, you remember that minority groups often have lower achievment than majority groups......hmmmm, now we are getting very specific......what about a study on the relationship between parental involvement and student achievement among African American or Hispanic students?  \n\nAnyway, that is just an example, but the idea is to start with a general topic---a broad area you are interested in....then get more and more specific until you arrive at your specific study!  \n\nAnother good hint is to look at the end of published studies....they often have a paragraph or two on future research directions/unanswered questions (just as you will eventually have in your thesis)---these can be really good for generating ideas.  \n\nGood luck!
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It really depends upon the culture. I knew a girl who was Saudi, but raised in Venezuela (another culture repressive to women). She was a student of mine in college and clashed frequently w/her traditional parents, since she wanted to become a doctor. \n\nKids and parents of all cultures usually clash, to some degree or another. Even parents (like a lot of aging Hippies I know!) who are pretty loose on discipline, have fights with their kids and sometimes the kids suffer from not enough discipline, whereas in our culture, it's usually TOO MUCH discipline (esp. if kids are hit...that's just wrong!). \n\nWhat you're describing sounds like basically the same thing that every immigrant group has gone through in some form: the older generation wants to keep tradition but the younger generation wants to be Americanized. \n\nThe main thing is to realize the kids aren't doing this out of lack of love or respect. You need to let them go and mesh with the new society, but be there for them if they need a place to come back to, and they usually do. \n\nDon't alienate your kids just because they're not exactly like you!
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Maybe it's just me, but I would do a research paper on Discriminatory Laws Against Immigrants in the US.  \n\nThe US prides it self as a country built on immigrants.  Almost everyone (except Native Americans) can trace their immigrant roots in 2 or 3 generations.  \n\nYet, if you think back, immigrants have always been the scapegoat for any social problems.  Common sense and statistics tell us that such is simply not the case.  Politicians exaggerate problems with immigrants because they are most vulnerable and have no votes.  It would also make politicians seem patriotic and protecting the country.  \n\nSo there are two approaches: \n\n1) Retrace the US history to identify the pattern of blaming on different group of immigrants (and discuss the social/hisotrical context).  Now it's the Middle Eastern as terrorists, and Mexicans are being blamed for hurting the economy.  Not too long ago it was the Japanese during WWII.  Earlier this century it was the Chinese (beginning of 1900s).  Last century we have the Africans (civil war).  I am sure sometime in the history certain European immigrants were targeted as well (Italians, Russians, etc.)\n\n2) Analyze the current situation to see if the laws are still repeating history.  The reasons why certain groups are targeted and if there is any merit or just results of hysteria.  \n\nGood luck!
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It is customary for visitors in Europe to bring a small gift.  I have found that 100% real maple syrup is good because it is uncommon in Europe and they like it a LOT more than any other American food product.  Other than that, something particular to your region, city, or college might be good.  Something that identifies it as being particular to you is great.  Don't go too overboard though.\n\nA thank you card would be a nice additional touch.\n\nYou don't HAVE to eat meals or attend religious rituals or whatnot, but you ARE there to learn about the culture (I hope!), so it makes sense to experience some of these things.  You might be surprised to learn that some of these "mundane" things grant greater insight into your studies or they might just be interesting experiences.  Still, I'm not saying you need to convert or anything.  Just learn about the people you are living with.  It's polite and educational.  If, on the other hand, you want to offend your hosts, demand that they change to your ways and belittle their own.\n\nDealing with culture shock:  Set reasonable goals for yourself.  Don't try too hard or set unobtainable standards.  In fact, set low expectations for yourself at first - easily obtainable goals that will allow you to have some early successes.  For example:  instead of expecting instant language mastery, set a goal of learning a set number of new words each day.  KEEP A JOURNAL!  This is great because it allows you to record your progress and look back and recognize your accomplishments.\n\nStay in touch with people back home.  For example, I realized too late that if I wanted to be an RA the next year I would have had to know when the application process was happening (January!) and arrange a telephone interview.  I learned this in March...  Yech!\n\nA sure sign of culture shock is forming a cultural clique where you just hang out with people from your own country.  One step down is just hanging out with expatriots - other foreigners.  I'm not saying beat off all potential fellow citizens or fellow foreign students, but it is important to work on making friends from the country that you are visiting.\n\nMake sure you pay attention in any cultural briefings or locale briefings.  They provide important information like where not to be wandering out alone at night or whether it's safe to drink the water.  I had some friends learn some of these things the hard way.