Question:
If you spent most of your life or youth in a country other than the U.S. i need you to answer these questions?
mercedes
2010-04-08 16:29:04 UTC
if you dont mind please answer the questions this is for my american government class... i no its kind of long jus do wat you can... i really need two complete questionnaires...

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?
Four answers:
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2010-04-08 16:43:48 UTC
1. i live in a small town in wales, most of the people here are british white, however a few african people live here, and a few asian.

2. from 3-15 i was in wales

3. im not sure what it is like in the states but, here education is free and available to all, playschool, nursery, primary school, high school, and then the options of college or 6th form and then possibly university.

4. i havent really as there arent many different cultures here, however i love to listen about the different cultures of a select few in my uni, but most are welsh. like me/

5.well... most people know how to help a lamb give birth.... lots of farmers around here.

the school dinners are yummy!

6. we love roast dinner!! Lamb, Beef, Pork, Chicken... we welshies are meat eaters :P Lol. ooh ever heard of cauliflower cheese!! =D yummm yummmm

7.im not too sure about the government.. well when bush was in charge anyway but i hear a lot of great stuff about america :)

8. we talked about the value of success in my uni lecture.. i beleive success to be, whatever your personal ambition is in life, if that comes true, your successful. if you wanted a lovely family, and you have it, you are successful :) intelligence doesnt equal success to me, however lots of unis unknowingly do say this as they ask for a specific amount of points ( Grades ) which generally have to be high... meaning you have to be intelligent to success at uni.

9. i dont think i knew the meaning of liberty until 5 ish years ago... lol .. because of the statue of liberty. but i beleive freedom to be within limits, that we should be allowed to say things the way we like and eat the way we like etc... and obviously be our own person. i hate being told that the way i talk is wrong.. who made up language?

10. i think we do. lol although im sure if you go up to a police man and shout or swear at him, you'd be locked up for the night. so technically no.. :)

11. there are many, and most of them are american anyway so im sure you know them./

12. i would say football, but it sucks really. for girls in school anyway probably netball or hockey. however the welsh do like rugby lol. i like Judo and American football :)

13. a young person can become successfull on there own, but almost impossibly hard without the support of family.

money isnt too much of a matter..

14. umm.. i think Texas seems like a cool place, but i think lots of people arent too keen on Homosexuals, however over here, people are freely gay, around the place..

15. i havent lived in another country

16. always try there things, like the way they live their lives and if you can speak there language, and be respectful of their beleifs, howevver that doesnt mean let them walk all over you. if you dont agree with something, or what you have tried tastes like feet, dont carry on doing it :)



hope this helped :D
2016-04-14 13:24:47 UTC
Many years ago, in the first oath I made as an adult, I swore to protect and defend the Constitution. And, let's face it, the Constitution has been battered by all politicians for at least the past century. It means I do not make demands on my government that I know to be unconstitutional. It means I do not support unconstitutional actions and spending by the government. It means that I recognize that the majority of things politicians promise to do are unconstitutional. But the fact is that in order to get elected, a politician now must embrace a significant amount of unconstitutional legislation. It is also a fact that the majority of people, especially including the "watchdog" media, are not very cognizant of just how much the current bloated federal government is in violation of the strict Constitutional limitations or why it matters.
Paula Euceda
2010-04-08 16:41:55 UTC
9. I freedom is like do what ever you want to do no matter if is bad or good

12.soccer

11.el peluquero

13.i think is all about individual effort(work to get your own money, study as hard as you can to get any job,etc.)

14.the music is different,the language, restaurants, food, holidays,streets, buildings,cars, money,education, religion
2010-04-08 17:15:55 UTC
1. i am a 26 year old filipino citizen girl. i live in the philippines from october 1983 to december 2008. i left for chicago since then. my biological mother is filipino. my biological dad is vietnamese. but i have never been to vietnam. i do not know vietnamese culture. so i would have to say that all i know is filipino culture. and i grew up with my mom only. my dad left before i was born.



2. i spend 3-15 in the philippines. in my hometown down south. called Oroquieta City. no muslims. all christians. all filipinos. no other races or no other asian nationalities.



3. education in my elementary years is very good. it's where i learn my english speaking skills. my math skills. reading skills. in high school, i learned nothing. or if i did, i forgot. in college, there are loads of students in one class. a lot of young people do nursing degrees to get here in the US. work opportunities for me as a nurse is good. but the pay is so small. like i only receive a net income of less $100 a month. all my salary would go to food, bedspace rent, transportation. plus the ratio of nurse to patient is so wide like 1 nurse: 40 patients! good thing is patients do not sue there. the employees have the upper hand. patients and family members just do what employees tell them to do. here in the US, if you do not listen to the patients they will sue the hospital or report my *** to the hospital administrator. that is just so retarded. well, work opportunities there, i have a lot of competition. am not the only one trying to apply for a nursing position in hospitals. there are a lot of nurses back in the philippines who could not get a nursing job because hospitals are jam packed with volunteer nurses.



4. i have no problems with cultural adjustment back there in the philippines. everyone is the same as me. but here in the US, man, i have to really attend to EACH and EVERY need of the patient. we are assigned 6 patients and it is so draining that i think working in the philippines with 40 patients is way, way better than working here in the US with only 6 patients but it kills you literally. they have so many demands. if you do not meet their demand then they report you, sue the hospital. damn, be a patient in the philippines and you will shut your mouth up.



5. people in the philippines are very laid back people. basketball is the national sports. like almost every guy there plays basketball. almost every corner in the country has an improvised basketball court.



internet cafes there are also full with young people. young girls who chat online to meet white men to marry. and young guys who play online games.



in the rural areas, a lot of people swim in the rivers and the seas. in the big cities, they go to malls and bars at night. but most people watch TV at home. men drink beer outside the house and talk loud. it's always hot in the philippines.



every year we have fiestas. like schools are close for the whole week to celebrate fiestas. there are carnivals too. and people go to people's houses to eat and drink.



most people just hang out at other people's houses, watch TV, clean their houses, drink beer, text on the phone.



6. we always eat fish. fish is our staple food. meat is expensive there. we also eat vegetables like malunggay, alugbati, kangkong. potatoes, broccoli, cauliflowers are expensive there, man. even carrots. we use garlic and onion in all our dishes. we rarely use curry. but a lot of people want to put chilli peppers on their soy sauces mixed with vinegar and garlic when eating fish. rice is the staple food as well. breakfast has rice. lunch has rice. dinner has rice. we usually fry the fish with the bones with it. we eat their heads. or put a lot of water with the fish and salt and mix it with cheap vegetables and we have tinola. i know americans are disgusted with fish bones. even meat bones. i see a lot of boneless meat sold here in chicago.



7. yes, everyone in the philippines love America. all people want to live here, too. he he. i have not heard any single filipino who hates america. maybe a few but i have not met them yet in my lifetime. i have seen a few on TV when a military 5 military white guys stationed in a philippine army base raped a filipino girl. that's about it.



8. success in my country means your child has graduated from college, you have a car, you have a cemented, nice looking house, you have white skin (a lot of girls put creams to whiten their brown faces) , you dress expensive clothes. same as here in the US.



9. doing anything i want? well, i live in a free society in the philippines. never did i felt limited to anything there. kids can buy beer and buy cigarettes from stores there without showing your ID. you can even drive without a driver's license. that is if you do not get caught. usually and mostly nobody gets caught. you can do anything you want there, man. i think America is stricter than the philippines in so many sense. nobody can sue me i


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