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Interview

Interviewer: Hallo, How are you?

Interviewee: I am Fine thank you.

Interviewer: Do you have a minute?

Interviewee: Yes.

Interviewer: I Want to ask you some question.

Interviewee: ok, that fine.

Interviewer: thank you. these are the questions that I am going to ask them to you.

Interviewee: ok

Interviewer: can you tell me your name please.

Interviewee: My name is Xippin-He

Interviewer: where are you from?

Interviewee: China.

Interviewer: What is the value of family in your country?

Interviewee: - In my country, family plays an important role in our life, it is one of the most important parts in our life.

Interviewer: How does your home country culture different from the US culture?

Interviewee: Yes, sure. Such as, we will find, most people in America are very independent. However, in china, we like to doing things together.

Interviewer: What are the highlights in your culture? (What things will make people immediately think about your country? Please tell more about its history)

Interviewee: I think China is an unique country. It has a very long history, it is almost 5000 years. Then it has deeply cultural basis. I think the highlights in china is it has a lot of dynasties.

Interviewer: What is the most famous food in your country?

Interviewee: The food in china and ameica will be very different. In china, rice is the major food . we have meals three times per day, it is the same with america. I think Chinese foof is one of the most delicious food in the world. Especially for spicy food, I like it very much. Such as fish, beef, dumplings.

Interviewer: What is the education system in your country

Interviewee: We can get free education from elementary school to Middle school. Because the goverent will pay for us. Then, we need to pay from high school. If the people want to go to college, they need to take tests. If they have a higher score in the test, they can go to a toppest inversity, but if they get a lower score during the test, they will go to an ordinary university.

Interviewer: What are the top three social pastimes?

Interviewee: In china, we enjoy going to KTV when we are free. Ktv, it is a new concept in china, it is an activity that people sing together in one room. And some people like playing basketball when they are free.

Interviewer: What are the different religions your country? And what is the predominant religion?
Interviewee: Buddhism is the major religion in china, we also have Christiang, but it is a little hard to find a church in a small city.

Interviewer: What are some holidays that you celebrate in China and how do you celebrate them?

Interviewee: Spring Festival is the most important event in China. It is at the end of the year, people will come back home from different places. And our family will stay together, sit together and tak together. Besides, we will visit our friends and relatives.

Challenges and benefits of interviewing international students

The world became smaller and more connected every year. We discover a thousand things in this world which interesting to learn about such as Clusters, language, customs, and food. From that, many people travel around the world to see and learn more about these things. Most of them are going on business and others for studying. However, one of the effective ways which helps them to build their background about the world is interviewing. There are many Challenges and benefits of interviewing international students, but most of them are benefits.

There are several challenges of interviewing international students. The biggest challenge is find more than one international student who are living in the same country. Most of international student aren’t a bilingual and something like could add some difficulty between both of the interviewer and the interviewee. From that, it’s hard to gather information from international students. Another Challenge could they have during the interview who would ask questions that could offender the interviewee by mistake. If that happened, some of them will finish the interview with the interviewer as soon as possible. These challenges most of the interviewer could face it while interviewing a international students. However, the interview benefits are more than challenges.

        There are some challenges that could affect the interview; however, there are many benefits from interviewing international students. Interview can let share your information with others and see what they know about the country of visit, also learning a new things about their country. Another benefits from interviewing which is you can have a lot of friends form all around the world. So, that will help the both side to improving their skills.

        In the end, interviewing international students is interesting. Of course there are some challenges from that, but there are many benefits; learning a new things about the world, having international friends, and sharing your information with the others.

 

Brainstorm

Challenges and benefits of interviewing an international student (or an US student):

A-    Challenges:-

 

1-      hard to communicate with them

2-      Different language

3-      Gathering information

4-      Misunderstood the full meaning of some of questions.

5-      Different culture

6-      Hard to find more than two which are in the same country  

 

B-    Benefits:-

 

1-      Learning a new thing about the country  

2-      Making a new friends from around  the United Nation  

3-      Learning more about the others opinion about their countries

4-      Sharing what you know with others

5-      Improving communication skills

6-      Being able understand about their cutlers.  

 

Interview Objectives

My Objectives in the interview:

1- Learn more about the Chinese and The Japaneses cultures, Food, customs, and tadition.

2- Know who is it different from US Culture.

3- learn more about there belifes and try to understand it

·         Ben Miller

Heckel, Waldemar, and Lawrence A. Tritle. Alexander the Great: A New History. Chichester, U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Print.

 

·         Xianping He

Ittelson, W.,L. RIVLIN, and H. PROSHANSKY (1976) “ The use of behavioral maps in environmental psychology,” in H. Proshansky et al. (eds) Environmental psychology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

 

·         Jonathon Gerry

Hill, James M. Celtic Warfare: 1595-1763. Aldershot: Gregg Revivals, 1993. Print

·         Hansole Hyun

Rober kail, The Devleopment of memory in Children. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1979

 

·         Clayton Athman

 

Apel and Apel. Mash: An Army Surgeon in Korea. Lexington, Kentucky, 1998. Print

book from the library.

A1. I choose this book because I like to know some of what did happen in the history and try to learn from them.

A2. One , Alfred .A. Knopf.

A3. Queen Mary.

A4. James Pope-Hennessy.

A5. New York, 1960

                For me, I like to read something about the history. I think this book is a little pet interesting for me, because I like to read about the history. The book which I have chosen is Queen Mary. This book was publish by Alfred .A. Knopf, 1959 and the copy right by James Pope-Hennessy in New York, 1960. This is some text from the book “the Queen had often had before, and was to have again, occasions to complain of her Cambridge cousin’s dilatory habits in answering letters: ……”( Knopf, 1960, 43)

Works cited

                Knopf, Alfred. Queen Mary. James Pope-Hennessy. New York. 1960