mercedes
2010-04-08 16:29:04 UTC
1. Do you identify with one ethnic background? If so which one?
2. Where did you spend your formative (3 to 15) years?
3. Explain the education and work opportunities in your country. How are they different from the United States?
4. What has been the hardest cultural adjustment you have had to make? Please explain why.
5. Please tell me two or three interesting things about your home country? People? Traditions?
6. Please describe an interesting food that your family eats.
7. Do people in your home country trust the American people and or the American government?
8. When people of your family think of “success” how do they define it? Is success “money?” Is success “happiness?”
9. What does “liberty” or “freedom” mean to you?
10. Do the people of your country have complete political freedom? Please explain. Do they have complete “freedom of speech?” Do you think “freedom” is important?
11. What is one of the most popular music or band or musician for young people in your home country?
12. What is the most popular sport in your country?
13. Do you think that a young person/student needs resources (examples: family support, money, government support, community support) in order to be successful? Or is success really all about individual effort?
14. Please talk about a difference you see between the culture of your home country and the culture of the people of Texas.
15. Has living in another country changed your perspective in any way? Does travel change perspective?
16. If you could give me one piece of advice about learning about other people from other cultures what would that be?