Saudi Students in the U.S
Background
The survey mainly looks to answer the question: the degree of safety that one feels while living away from their country. whereby the focus community in this case is the Saudi Arabia student community living in the United States. The main issue that is the focus of the paper is to prove that actually living away from you home country is stressful and one will not feel safe as compared to be living. This is normal, for everyone as they tend to start living in a new environment which actually has a very different culture than what one is sued to in their home country. So, this being obvious the exact item that needs to be identified is what is the Degree of safety one feels.
The population includes all the people that are living in the United States and were previously lying in Saudi Arabia. Half of these correspondents are students and the other half did not specify their vocation. Form the population of six correspondents only one was female the other were males.
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The actual role I take among the group is non-participatory observer. It would be easy of the studying the community from an observation point of view.
Methods
There were typical methods that were used to collect the data for the survey, since the correspondents were from different geographical locations it meant that the methods that could be used would be limited.
Observation: This technique of data collection was instrumental as it really helped to look at or observe the community of Saudi Students in the U.S. that were near me. The observation was feasible when I was able to interact with the population, mainly in studying institutions before things changed, but lately it was mostly through social media due to the circumstance. Through this one is able to identify their feedback especially if the topic at hand is brought up.
Questionnaire: This was designed to be taken through online platforms, that helped in designing a set of questions to the correspondents. The questions obviously were carefully designed to revolve around the topic/ therefore form the answers of each respondent gave out a point of view that was able to understand their attitude towards this issue at hand. This method was the most instrumental because it helped in reaching different geographical locations which made the data collected more inclusive and not bias of only one area.
Results
The results were not at all surprising. The results were collected in a scale and all the correspondents were asked to mark the degree, which showed how safe they felt while living in the United States. The scale ranged from one to five, 1= very safe, 2= safe, 3= neither safe/unsafe, 4 = unsafe, 5= very unsafe.
Two of the respondents said that they felt safe, three of the respondents felt neither safe/unsafe and one of the respondents claimed they felt very unsafe.
Looking at the results it is conclusive to say that the degree of being safe maybe represented by unsafe. This particular supports the hypothesis, that claimed that living in a new environment of in anew environment in this case will definitely make one feel unsafe especially if there are different aspects such as cultural differences. When particularly looking at Saudi Arabia and the United States.
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Conclusion
The survey results showed that the correspondents felt that they were unsafe and looking back at the research question, “what is the degree of safety that you feel while living away form your country?” The results being divided into three degrees, safe, neither safe/unsafe and very unsafe it creates a vivid picture that shows the attitude of Saudi Arabia community living in the U.S. at the current moment. But all this can be synthesized into the single degree of feeling unsafe. This helps to create the perfect response for this survey and support the hypothesis, that actually claims that living in a foreign country somewhat feel like you are not safe. In addition to these there are derivable that need to be focus on, such as work or school environment, the cultural differences and if one has family or familiar people like friends in the U.S. these factors actually makes the research to have different answers (Alsahafi & Shin, 2019). The only biases of the research are the number of participants, definitely only six people would not provide the substantive results that would represent the Saudi Arabia community in the U.S.
References
Abdel Razek, A. N. A. (2012). An exploration of the case of Saudi students' engagement, success and self-efficacy at a Mid-Western American university (Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron).
Alsahafi, N., & Shin, S. C. (2019). Factors affecting the academic and cultural adjustment of Saudi international students in Australian universities. Journal of International Students, 2017 Vol. 7 (1), 7(1), 53-72.
Appendices
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Degree of Safety while Residing in the United States
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