Hey guys and gals i have to interview someone for a assignment for a class. They must be someone who currently or has lived in the U.S. but is from another country. Theses are the questions i have to answer.
please either post ur answers or you can pm them to me.
Thanks, Tyler

What country is your interviewee from?

1. What does your interviewee like about the United States? Why?

2. What does your interviewee dislike about the United States? Why?

3. What surprised your interviewee? Why?

4. What might surprise a visitor to the interviewee’s home country?

5. What are the cultural imperatives for a visitor to the interviewee’s home country?

6. What impression of the United States prevails in the interviewee’s home country? Favorable and unfavorable.

 

you live in texas, go outside. you will find someone within 25 seconds.

 

True, but I bet none of those would understand the questions.

 

Think I can help out here. I lived in Houston for 2 years from 2005 to 2007.

You might guess from the username, I'm from England

1. What does your interviewee like about the United States? Why?

I liked car culture, something we don't really have here.
For example, in the UK, we have 2 useable dragstrips. In Houston, there were 3 within 50 miles of where I stayed.
Lot's of car shows and meets plus the great weather meant that I could indulge my hobby.

I also liked how friendly everybody was. In Europe, we're packed together like sardines and you almost tend to try and avoid people.
In the USA, it's the opposite.

2. What does your interviewee dislike about the United States? Why?

Inequality. You can still see some real poverty in the USA.
I know this goes against the grain on here but one of those issues is in healthcare.
If you can afford insurance, that's all good, if you can't, well good luck.
I know people that were healthy, got sick, then had insurance cancelled for that illness or were unable to work afterwards thus not being to able to afford insurance.
There's no easy answer. You either pay high taxes for universal care or let people slip under the net.
It's easy to say "I'm ok" until it happens to you.

3. What surprised your interviewee? Why?

Motoring laws.

The ease with which anybody can get a drivers license compared to here.
The Texas driving test is far too easy. I know because I had to do it to get a license.
You can buy a motorcycle and just ride it off the lot with virtually no training. That's crazy.
Also the fact that auto insurance is not compulsory.

4. What might surprise a visitor to the interviewee’s home country?

An American to England? hah!!!

Based on when my friends visited.

It's not foggy all the time.
We don't all have bad teeth.
Not everybody is called Nigel.
You can actually eat the local food.
We do have McDonalds, KFC, Domino's and Starbucks just in case.
You can own a gun.
The price of Gasoline.
We have just as many freedoms (if not more) than you.

5. What are the cultural imperatives for a visitor to the interviewee’s home country?

Going back to what I said in question 1, we can appear to be unfriendly.
Don't take that personally because it's not. People won't always strike up a conversation, want to have one or share what they think is personal information. So, don't expect that We're not stuck up, just a bit more private.

6. What impression of the United States prevails in the interviewee’s home country? Favorable and unfavorable.

Sterotypes abound.

Unfavorably.

Americans are loud, dress funny, relatively ignorant of the world outside the USA, everyone is massively rich etc etc

Favorably.

Less Govt regulation and still the land of opportunity for hard workers.

Hope that helps you.

 

Enjoyable reading, EnglishAdam.

If twelch runs with that, he should get an A.

 

Good read