Intercultural Interview Prep - FA19 PDF

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Instructions: Intercultural Interview Assignment Prep and Interview Guide Your interview guide will consist of 12-15 well thought-out questions that you will ask your interviewee for the Intercultural Interview project in this class. These are the SEVEN REQUIRED Questions (modify the language if necessary to fit your interviewee and the micro-culture/community you are focusing on): 1. Can you define what it means to be a member of your culture? How do you identify yourself? What core values or ideas are important in your culture? 2. What were some cultural values and beliefs instilled by your parents (or members of your community) while you were growing up (or first became a part of this community)? Do you still hold those values/beliefs? Why are they still important to you? 3. What are some of the bigger traditions or rituals you follow/celebrate from your culture? What are some traditions that you do not practice anymore and why? 4. What characterizes way you talk to other members in your culture/community? friends? And with your parents? Or other elders in the culture? And expectations of how to talk between and across genders? 5. How much physical contact is acceptable in your culture and with whom? How do you show respect and affection amongst other members of your culture? 6. What advice do you have for people outside of your culture that would make communication with you and other members more appropriate/comfortable? 7. Have you ever come across to someone who didn’t understand your culture? How do you deal with it? What happens when you see your culture mis-represented? How do you respond? What kinds of other questions are informative and interesting to ask your interviewee? (The focus of this class is on culture and communication. Your questions should be in line with that focus for the most part). You may borrow from the sample questions provided and modify them as appropriate or come up with your own. Keep in mind: 

Do the questions focus on cultural experience and communication behavior? Remember the focus of this class. For purposes of this assignment, it is not appropriate to ask questions that are related to physical geography or factual/encyclopedic information that you could research and gather on your own. Focus the questions on learning something about the interviewee’s cultural background/experience and on their communication behaviors (both verbal and nonverbal).

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Are the questions in an order that would flow well in an interview? It is recommended that you start your interview off with some general questions to get comfortable with the interviewee, and then get more specific in your later questions. Think about how questions are connected and if it makes sense to group some of them together (by topics/subjects, by follow-up or related questions).

Worksheet: Intercultural Interview Assignment Prep and Interview Guide Answer the following 3 questions plus construct your Interview Questions Guide and submit these on the appropriate submission link in Canvas. 1. What (micro)culture or cultural community are you interested in learning more about?

2. Who will you try to interview and why are you choosing them? What specific themes/cultural dimensions about this person’s cultural community and experience will you explore in your interview?

3. What are at least 2 resources you are plan to research/review in order to educate yourself about this cultural community to help you develop your interview questions and understand your interviewee better?

4. List your set of 12-15 questions you will use as your Interview Question Guide. Note: You may borrow from the sample questions provided and modify them as appropriate or come up with your own. And you must also incorporate the SEVEN required questions (which are included below). Be sure to consider appropriate question order/flow (don’t just cut and paste random questions—be intentional in how you will structure asking questions to your interviewee).

INTERVIEW QUESTION GUIDE: 1. Can you define what it means to be a member of your culture? How do you identify yourself? What core values or ideas are important in your culture? 2. What were some cultural values and beliefs instilled by your parents (or members of your community) while you were growing up (or first became a part of this community)? Do you still hold those values/beliefs? Why are they still important to you? 3. What are some of the bigger traditions or rituals you follow/celebrate from your culture? What are some traditions that you do not practice anymore and why? 4. What characterizes way you talk to other members in your culture/community? friends? And with your parents? Or other elders in the culture? And expectations of how to talk between and across genders? 5. How much physical contact is acceptable in your culture and with whom? How do you show respect and affection amongst other members of your culture? 6. What advice do you have for people outside of your culture that would make communication with you and other members more appropriate/comfortable? 7. Have you ever come across to someone who didn’t understand your culture? How do you deal with it? What happens when you see your culture mis-represented? How do you respond? NOTE: Add your other questions to this document and determine the best order/flow for how you will ask them....