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All students did a great job but there are five student got the highest score :

1-      Mattson, Valerie M

2-      Asiri, Mohammed Y

3-      Alshaikhahmad, Ali M

4-      Fan, Yu, Alabbas, Ahmed A

 

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My First Interview

My First Interview with Quing

1-Interview preparations:

How did I approach people? When, where, and how did I conduct and record the interview?

             I conducted the interview on Sunday, October 20^th in the library. This is first time I did interview whit chines Students especially with Quing. When I was looking for international students to do the interview in the library, I saw Quing in the first floor I was not sure if he will  do the interview with me or not but let me try. When I went to him and ask him if he can help me in the interview, he said to me sounds good. Then, I asked him if I can record him or not he said that there is no problem with the recorder.

Whom did I interview?

Quing is from China, he is 22 years old and he is student in Saint Cloud State University. His major is Computer Since. Also, he came to Saint Cloud three years ago. In addition, he is living with his friends in apartment. Moreover, I was comfortable when I talked with him because he was smiling and speaking clearly.

2-Describe the interview: What did surprise me?

I enjoyed in this interview because the interview was very good. Also, Quing speaks clearly when he answered all the questions. In addition, this is first time for me did the interview with Chinese student and it was a good experience.  Moreover, I learned many things about Chinese culture . Also, The thing that surprised me was most  Chinese families should eat at least one meal together daily.

3-Country Report:

Size, location and population:

China has a large area. The total size of china is: 9,596,961 sq km. Also, location of China is “Eastern Asia, bordering the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea, and South China Sea, between North Korea and Vietnam”. The population of China is 1,349,585,838 in 2013.

Important information about china:-

Religion: Buddhist, Christian, and Islam.

The capital city: Beijing

Language: there are many kind of Chinese language such as Putonghua, based, and Cantonese.

China has mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east

Export: electrical and other machinery, including data processing equipment, apparel, radio telephone handsets, textiles, integrated circuits

Import:  electrical and other machinery, oil and mineral fuels, optical and medical equipment, metal ores, motor vehicles

Military: person between 18-24 years old can be in the Chinese military. There are 10,406,544 males and 9,131,990 female in the military.

References

"Central Intelligence Agency." The World Factbook. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Oct. 2013. Retrieved from: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ch.html

4-Interview transcription:   Me & Quing

Me: hi. What is your name? where are you from?

Quing: my name is Qing and I am from China.

Me: what is your major?

Quing: my major is Computer Since.

Me: what is your Favorite Sport?

Quing: I do not like any sports.

Me: what do you do in your free time?

Quing: watch T.V.  and I like series.

Me: what are the famous foods in your country?

Quing: the popular and famous food in my country is Noodle.

Me: how do you communicate with each other in your home country?

Quing: speak together by our language.

Me: what is the clothing style for men and  women?

Quing: men wear t shirts and suits but women wear Skirts.

Me: how are women and men treated differently?

Quing: usually are equal.

Me: how has your experience here helped you interpret and respect cultural differences?

Quing: there are many differences between Chinese people and American people. American people open minded but sometimes Chinese people conservative. Also, American people like talking but Chinese people are shy. In addition, I respect all cultures.

Me: do you enjoy speaking with other exchange students?

Quing: yes, I enjoy speaking with other students to know more about their traditions and cultures.

Me: how long have you been in the United States?

Quing: I have been here 3 years ago.

Me: have you been able to visit any other parts of the United States?

Quing: no, because I do not have time but maybe in next Christmas I will visit many countries in United States.

Me: what are your home country's major religions?

Quing: the main religion in China is Buddhism.

Me: what are influenced you to come to the United States? Especially, Saint Cloud State?

Quing:  I came here to Saint Cloud State because there are many Chinese friends here and Saint Cloud not expensive.

Me: do you have any questions for me? I have asked so many of you?

Quing: yes, what is your major?

Me: my major is Finance.

Quing: what is your plan after graduate?

Me: I will back to my country and I will work there.

Quing: thank you.

Me: you are welcome, I appreciate your help.

Challenges and benefits of interviewing an international student

Abdullah Ramadan

Mohammed Alamer

Almoutasem Aljahdli

 

           There are some of similarities and differences between thesecountries. Such as religion, culture, education, and traditions. People whointerview others who came from another country is a benefit because you get tolearn about his/her culture and traditions. In addition, there are more thattwo benefits you can discover from interviewing international students, forsome of them are suffering hard time from homesickness and that’s why they needsomeone to talk to and feel free to get along with them. As human we have toknow how other countries are.

          Thechallenges of interviewing international students in the United States are ifsome got offended about your questions, or if you chose the wrong person andsometimes you might choose the wrong time for the interview. However, thechallenges doesn’t to have in a bad way maybe you face a challenge aboutlearning a new tradition such as if you want to try new food that you neverhad, or having a conversation about something new. Challenges and interviewingpeople makes you learn a lot of things especially if you are interviewingforeign people.

In conclusion,many benefits since interviewers will be able to achive knowledge about anothercultures as well as their own culture, interviewing an international studentmake people face some challenges finding and approaching interviewees at firstbut obviously the process would bring many challenges.

objectives

My goals in this interview are learning about personal’s culture, educations, personal relationships, Festivities, weddings, funerals, holidays, cultures, religion and politics , Every-day life, food, transportation.

 

1-      Tell me about yourself and your family?

2-      What is your major?

3-      Can you tell me about your relationships, friendships and marriages?

4-      What are the festivities, weddings, funerals, and holidays in your culture?

5-      What is your religion? How do you feel about politics of your country?

6-      What do people do in the weekend?

7-      What do you do in your free time?

8-      What is your favorite sport?

West Africa Today

Book "West Africa Today"

Page. 13

Female Continent

          There are a lot of people in Africa living between the Tropic Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. In addition, they speak many languages. Also, most of these people are illiterate and the traditional tribe is primary. The traditional tribesmen transferred from mature governments to African leaders. Moreover, the leaders have a respect from the Westerns. According to “the leaders of each new regime, large and small, have repeatedly declared their intention to develop a modern welfare state along broad western lines, supported by an expanding economy based on foreign trade and investment, and scored by statewide military and police services” that means, Each leader comes develops many things in large and small cities by foreign investment to make improve in the cities and improve the military and police services.

     

Book "Profiles of African Leaders

Page. 46

Tom Mboya- The young man from Kenya

Tom Mboya was born in 1930 on sisal estate in Kenya's white highlands. Also, his parents were illiterate. Tom Mboya came leader in 1960 as a young leader in Africa. Also, he want to changing Kenya from a European colony to an African country as the first step from his plan. Moreover, there are four geographical sections: the coastal plain rising from Indian Ocean on the east, the board  plateau, the eastern Rift Valley, the bordering mountains and the Lake Plateau beyond the Rift to row and to the north vegetated with scrub. Also, the Africans voted the first time were eight Africans members, and the second time the number of members were changed to fourteen African elected.  He achieved in the leadership of the anticommunist International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Also, there were a lot of African leaders such as: Haile Selassie, Julius Nyerere, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and many others leaders.  

Book "Burkina Faso"

Page. 77, 79 and 100

The Economy Of Growth Amid Poverty

       Burkina was live in poor country and there was a small economy. Also, They were dependent in domestic consumption on the production of cereals, exports of gold and cotton and there were some other resources such as work force. Moreover, In 1980 Burkina's economy is growing better not only in west Africa but in all Africa. According to "Because of its limited natural resources and harsh  climate, Upper Volta was relegated to the back burner of French colonial economic development until  about world war I, the French were merely a drain on the local economy". That means, the French want this country because there were a lot of natural resources. In 1900, the French improved the transportations in Africa because they need the naturals resources. Also, there were many things did it to support the new administration in Africa specially  Ouagadougou such as: roads, governments buildings, schools, hospital and football stadium. In addition, French opened the central bank for Africa. Burkina put three large parks: Po National Park, the Arly National Park and the Grand Parc W, in east and central Africa to attract tourists.

 

Works Cited:

Hoepli, Nancy L.. West Africa today. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1971. Print.

Melady, Thomas Patrick. Profiles of African leaders. New York: Macmillan, 1961. Print.

Englebert, Pierre. Burkina Faso: unsteady statehood in West Africa. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996. Print.