2nd Interview Evaluation

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Final Paper Topic

The topic I have chosen is soccer and comparing the popularity of soccer between the U.S and the countries that I interviewed on. The reason I have chosen this topic is because all three interviewees answered with soccer being the most popular sport in their home country. This has always been something that has interested me because to so many foreign countries, soccer is the driving activity or past time that they celebrate most.

3rd Interview Evaluations

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Interview 3: Top 3

1. Gerry, Jonathon (20 Points)
2. Chancelvie ( 19 Points)
3. Murray, Patrick (18 Points)

Second Interview: Top 3

1. Jamaa, Abdalle M (20 Points)
2. Madden, Jonathan (20 Points)
3. Rahman, Labib (20 Points)

Country Report 3: Works Cited

Sources:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107407.html.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile.

Country Report 3: Chile

Chile is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernandez, Salas y Gomez, Desventuradas and Easter Islands. Chile also claims about 1,250,000 square kilometers of Antarctica, although all claims are suspended under the Antarctica Treaty. Chile's distinctive shape makes it the longest country in the world in terms of length-to-width ratio, with the fifth lengthiest coastline at over 78,000 kilometers. The northern desert contains great mineral wealth, mainly copper. The relatively small central area dominates in terms of population and agricultural resources and is the cultural and political center from which Chile expanded in the late 19th century when it incorporated its northern and southern regions. Southern Chile is rich in forests and grazing lands, and has a string of volcanoes and lakes. Prior to the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern and central Chile was under Inca rule while independent Mapuche inhabited central Chile. Chile declared its independence from Spain on February 12th 1818. In the War of the Pacific, Chile defeated Peru and Bolivia and won its current northern territory. It was not until the 1880's that the Mapuche were completely conquered. Chile endured an over 16 year long military dictatorship that left more than 3,000 people dead or missing. Today, Chile is one of South America's most stable and prosperous nations, a recognized middle power and an emerging economy. It leads Latin American nations in human development, competitiveness, income per capita, globalization, economic freedom, and low perception of corruption. On a bit of a side note, Chile is emerging as one of the world’s soccer powers as well and as such they are beginning to gain a lot more international attention because of it. Chile also ranks high regionally in sustainability of state, democratic development, and state of peace. However, it has a high rate of economic inequality. Overall Chile is doing very well in their development and as you can tell by reading my interviewee's responses to my questions he is very fond of his country and didn't really have anything negative to say.  

Interview 3: Chile

Me: What is the value of family in your country?

Interviewee: Family is prioritized before anything else in the Chilean culture. Unlike the United States youth try to live at home with their parents as long as possible. They rarely move out during college and only move out once they either find a spouse or get a job that takes them away.

Me: What is your family structure like?

Interviewee: Women are a lot more submissive and embrace the idea of the woman being in charge of cooking, cleaning and taking care of the household. It is accepted and embraced.

Me: How does your home country’s culture different from the US culture? 

Interviewee: Like the previous category talked about it is a lot more family oriented culture. One of the biggest differences in these two cultures would be the drive to success. It seems to be weighed by two different categories. The drive of the Chilean people is not to be wealthy and just hold a prestigious title but community and providing for the needs of those around you (even if not immediate family) come before so many other things.

Me: What are the highlights in your culture?

Interviewee: When people who know Chile think about it, they think about the hospitality people provide and how warm the people are. It is extremely welcoming and has the mentality that everything that is theirs is also yours.

Me: What is the most famous food in your country?

Interviewee: They eat very simple kinds of food. They eat tons of rice, potatoes, chicken, pasta, tomatoes, avocado and BREAD. Every single meal consists of bread and coffee or bread and tea plus whatever else they want to serve. The most famous Chilean dish is called Casuela. It’s a soup with chicken, potatoes, carrots, corn and a few other vegetables.

Me: What are your meals like?

Interviewee: People usually have tiny breakfast, bread and coffee. Lunch is BIG usually they close their businesses for lunch. Then at like 6 they have "Once" which is like an evening snack, usually bread and coffee, then Dinner at like 9pm which is a good healthy size. Portion sizes are not huge for each meal.

Me: What is the education system like?

Interviewee: There are public schools like the US as well as Private schools. The public schools education system is known for being terrible. The middle and upper class all go to private schools. College is very common because it is not very expensive and most people just live with their parents. There are very low level colleges that don’t cost much and get you simple jobs. There are a few large universities where the smart kids go.

Me: How does your country view the US?

Interviewee: They view the U.S as a prideful superpower who is hungry for control and money.

Me: Do a lot of people graduate college in your country?

Interviewee: A lot of people do graduate. It’s viewed as a necessity to live. 

Me: What are the top three social pastimes?

Interviewee: Every kid grows up playing soccer. Rich or poor. The few people who do play basketball or tennis which are about the only two other sports you see are upper class people. The lower class mostly just plays soccer. People love going to the stadium on Sundays and watch soccer matches.

Me: What are the different religions in Chile?

Interviewee: Catholic is the main religion of Chile. Everyone, whether they go to church or not, will claim to be catholic and love Jesus. There is a decent base of Evangelicals and Baptists but Catholics are predominant.

Me: Is it difficult to practice your beliefs freely?

Interviewee: Practicing Christianity or any religion is not looked down upon and freedom of religion is very open and accepted. 

Me: What are some holidays that you celebrate?

Interviewee: 18 September is our biggest holiday. It’s our independence day. It consists of A LOT of drinking and A LOT of eating. A lot of cultural foods like empanadas and other little things. There are cultural dances and parties. May 21st is also a big holiday of a famous Battle against Peru that we celebrate to this day.

Interview 2

Me: What is the value of family in Papua New Guinea
Interviewee: Its a support system, it's a group of people standing by each other through thick and thin. They nickname Papua New Guinea "the land of unexpected" because since there's always a bunch of different things going on the family is then required to be flexible and help each other out.

Me: What is your family structure there?
Interviewee: Definitely the dad is the provider or the king in the household. It's definitely a king queen relationship so my dad always has the final say but he respects my mom's input more than his own. And it's very mutual like that.

Me: How does Papua New Guinea's culture differ from U.S culture?
Interviewee: The main one is the lifestyle, a lot of people talk about like coming over here to America to live the American dream and i feel like that has a lot to go with it like materialistic views or materialistic things like a car, job, or money. Whereas in New Guinea you grow your own crops, you eat your own crops. So the labor you put in, the more product you will receive. So with that New Guinea's lifestyle is much more simplistic than American lifestyle so with that it's very easy to live there because you don't have much so you are more content with what you have.

Me: What are some of the highlights in New Guinea, like what are the things that make people think about New Guinea?
Interviewee: Definitely the climate and the landscape like where i grew up it's like 80 degrees year around and the only precipitation you have is rain here and there. The climate as far as you can plant any like tropical fruit or when you go to school you can just grab a banana off a tree for a snack and then definitely the land and having the ocean to swim in and what not.

Me: What role do women play in the culture there?
Interviewee:  Definitely they're the providers because they are the workers like they go into the gardens, they chop the fire wood and carry it back, they are the workaholics of the family.

Me: What is the most famous food?
Interviewee: Coffee, coffee is the number one cash crop you can go over to any Starbucks and they'll have New Guinea coffee.

Me: What are your meals like there?
Interviewee: Usually we try to have breakfast lunch and dinner but if that's not happening we usually just eat when we're hungry.

Me: Is food pretty available then?
Interviewee: Yeah depending on the climate there I mean if there's a drought obviously food is less available but for the most part we always had something to eat.

Me: What is the education system like?
Interviewee: It's really terrible, it goes back to the government like as far as education goes, teachers pretty much can decide if they want to go to class or not like you can have students showing up to class where the teachers don't show up because they get paid by the government so they can just be like i'm not going to school. So it's definitely poor because there isn't really a desire to teach.

Me: So then there wouldn't be much of an opportunity to go to college then or are there even any colleges there?
Interviewee: Um, no not really it kinda goes from high school into businesses and you can graduate and go work for a business I mean you can learn but for the most part you just go straight into a business. For the most part people will go to Australia or New Zealand for college.

Me: How do people from Papua New Guinea view the U.S?
Interviewee: To be honest they want to be like the U.S, the culture is slowly starting to westernize so pretty much let's say if skinny jeans come in style here it might take a couple years but it will become popular in New Guinea too. So the desire is definitely there.

Me: What are some of the top past times there?
Interviewee: Random rituals for each tribe are huge, like people will just deck out in tribal outfits and pretty much they find a reason to celebrate anything there like sports, rugby and soccer are big there probably the top two. And also holidays like Christmas they'll definitely have a huge celebration for that.

Me: What are some of the different religions there?
Interviewee: Christianity is huge there but New Guinea shares there island with Indonesia so there's a lot of Muslim or Islamic beliefs that come across. But before missionaries came there it was definitely spiritual like black magic and witch doctors there. But mainly now it's Christianity.

Me: Is it difficult to practice your beliefs there or is it pretty free?
Interviewee: It's difficult because we don't get challenged because there aren't a lot of different views so it's tough to learn new things by talking to people.

Me: What are some holidays?
Interviewee: Well their independence day when they won there independence from Australia the whole island will celebrate that. And like Christmas, and New Years and pretty much any time there's a celebration like a wedding or a sporting event victory.

Country Report: Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and many offshore islands. It is located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The capital is Port Moresby.

Papua New Guinea is one of the most culturally diverse countries on Earth. PNG has 841 different languages listed for the country, although 11 of these have no known living speakers. PNG is a relatively small country of about 6 million people. It is also one of the most rural, with very few of its people living in urban areas. The country is one of the world's least explored, culturally and geographically, and many undiscovered species of plants and animals are thought to exist in the interior of Papua New Guinea.

Growth in the mining and resource sector has led to PNG becoming the 7th fastest growing economy in the world as of 2011. Despite this, the majority of the population still live in traditional societies and practice subsistence based agriculture. Many people live in extreme poverty, with about one third of the population living on less than $1.25 per day.

After being ruled by other countries since 1884, Papua New Guinea gained its independence from Australia in 1975. It remains a realm of Elizabeth II, Queen of Papua New Guinea.