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Week 2: Reflective Essay (Cross-Cultural Interview Summary/Reflections) This assignment is due Week 2 Sunday. 

Instructions: Cross-Cultural Interview Summary/Reflective Essay

There are (2) two components to this assignment:

1. An interview

2. A written summary/reflective essay of the interview

For complete directions concerning this assignment, please see below.

Instructions for Cross-Cultural Interview

Interview someone from a culture DIFFERENT than your own. It can be anyone you know (neighbor, friend, co-worker, in-law, another NU student). HOWEVER, IT CANNOT BE SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS. In your interview, please address the following questions:

1. Demographics of the individual being interviewed (age, gender, level of education, what they do for a living, and how you know them).

2. How do you identify yourself culturally? How did you come to this identification?

3. What are the main differences you see/feel/experience between your culture and the dominant culture of the United States.

4. Under what conditions did you and your family enter the United States (immigrant, political refugee, slave, etc.)? What was that like?

5. Has your cultural group experienced oppression historically? In your home culture on in the United States.  How has this impacted you?

6. Have you experienced discrimination/racism/or other isms? In what ways? What happened as a result of this experience?

7. What were your expectations when you were little about what you would be when you grew up and what your life would be like?

8. Do you ever have the experience that your way of understanding things, thinking or or your emotional responses things were/are different from mainstream Americans. If that happens, how do you handle it?  

9. Did you feel you had a lot of choice in selecting friends, dates? In selecting mates? In finding jobs? In finding housing? In obtaining credit? In obtaining medical care?

10. How were your hopes and expectations for your future met or not met?

11. Do you ever feel like you don't belong in your cultural group?   Why is that?

12. What are common misperceptions about your group that you would like to see changed or corrected?

13. What are the most important things for people outside your cultural group to learn and appreciate about your group?

14. What are the best things for you, personally, about belonging to your cultural group?

15. Is there anything else you'd like to share?

Instructions Cross-Cultural Interview Summary

Write a reflective essay summarizing the information you discover through the interview. Be sure to include a general demographic description of the individual and address specifically, the following two questions (include support through citations and references of textbook and/or peer-reviewed literature):

1. What you learned about the other culture as a result of this assignment?

2. What you learned about yourself as a result of this assignment?

In addition to information from your interview, use information available in this week's readings and other course materials to help inform your essay. Write your essay in APA format with a Title page, Reference page, and with correct spelling and English grammar.

To earn full credit, the essay must show evidence of reflection on the class experience/material and is required to be a minimum of 2 full pages of content (not including the title page, abstract and/or reference page), yet not more than a maximum of 3 full pages. An abstract is not required. Past due Reflective Essays cannot be made up/late submissions will not be accepted.

Submit your assignment as an attachment.  Assignments submitted through other means (i.e., email, etc.) will not be accepted.  Additionally, please be sure to review the assignment description in the syllabus for additional guidance in earning maximum points on this assignment.

Hide Assignment Information

Instructions

Week 2: Reflective Essay (Cross-Cultural Interview Summary/Reflections) This assignment is due Week 2 Sunday. 

Instructions: Cross-Cultural Interview Summary/Reflective Essay

There are (2) two components to this assignment:

1. An interview

2. A written summary/reflective essay of the interview

For complete directions concerning this assignment, please see below.

Instructions for Cross-Cultural Interview

Interview someone from a culture DIFFERENT than your own. It can be anyone you know (neighbor, friend, co-worker, in-law, another NU student). HOWEVER, IT CANNOT BE SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS. In your interview, please address the following questions:

1. Demographics of the individual being interviewed (age, gender, level of education, what they do for a living, and how you know them).

2. How do you identify yourself culturally? How did you come to this identification?

3. What are the main differences you see/feel/experience between your culture and the dominant culture of the United States.

4. Under what conditions did you and your family enter the United States (immigrant, political refugee, slave, etc.)? What was that like?

5. Has your cultural group experienced oppression historically? In your home culture on in the United States.  How has this impacted you?

6. Have you experienced discrimination/racism/or other isms? In what ways? What happened as a result of this experience?

7. What were your expectations when you were little about what you would be when you grew up and what your life would be like?

8. Do you ever have the experience that your way of understanding things, thinking or or your emotional responses things were/are different from mainstream Americans. If that happens, how do you handle it?  

9. Did you feel you had a lot of choice in selecting friends, dates? In selecting mates? In finding jobs? In finding housing? In obtaining credit? In obtaining medical care?

10. How were your hopes and expectations for your future met or not met?

11. Do you ever feel like you don't belong in your cultural group?   Why is that?

12. What are common misperceptions about your group that you would like to see changed or corrected?

13. What are the most important things for people outside your cultural group to learn and appreciate about your group?

14. What are the best things for you, personally, about belonging to your cultural group?

15. Is there anything else you'd like to share?

Instructions Cross-Cultural Interview Summary

Write a reflective essay summarizing the information you discover through the interview. Be sure to include a general demographic description of the individual and address specifically, the following two questions (include support through citations and references of textbook and/or peer-reviewed literature):

1. What you learned about the other culture as a result of this assignment?

2. What you learned about yourself as a result of this assignment?

In addition to information from your interview, use information available in this week's readings and other course materials to help inform your essay. Write your essay in APA format with a Title page, Reference page, and with correct spelling and English grammar.

To earn full credit, the essay must show evidence of reflection on the class experience/material and is required to be a minimum of 2 full pages of content (not including the title page, abstract and/or reference page), yet not more than a maximum of 3 full pages. An abstract is not required. Past due Reflective Essays cannot be made up/late submissions will not be accepted.

Submit your assignment as an attachment.  Assignments submitted through other means (i.e., email, etc.) will not be accepted.  Additionally, please be sure to review the assignment description in the syllabus for additional guidance in earning maximum points on this assignment.