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Thursday, November 17, 2011
The Third Interview
Country report:
Geography:
Climate:
"Due to Somalia
Animals in Somali:
Because Somalia is located in the tropical zone, Somalia
cheetahs (image source: http://www.bing.com/featured/content/search?q=Animal+Moms%3A+Cheetahs)
Languages:
The official languages are Arabic and Somali, which is the mother tongue of the Somali people, and the second languages are English and Italian, which used to be a major language.
Religion:
Most of residents believe in Islam, which is the state religion. Less than 0.01% of Somalis are Christians. Islam is the monotheistic religion which is taught by Koran and Holy. And its adherent, called Muslims, they believe in the one and unique God, whose name is Allah. Muslims’ main purpose in life is to worship God, who sent many prophets to mankind, including Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa (Moses), Isa (Jesus) and so on, but ultimately, Muslims believe that the last message is sent to prophet Muhammad. Islamic law actually touch each level of somalia South Asia , and 20% of muslims in Arab countries. Most of the muslim countries are Indonesia 
Muslims from all over the world to pray together. (image source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kaaba_at_night.jpg )
Cuisine:
Somali cuisine is influenced by native Somali, Ethiopian, Yemeni, Persian, Turkish, Indian and Italian. Usually, they drink tea (shaah) to start the day, and the main dish in breakfast is pancake. For lunch, "which is an elaborated main dish, somalisoften use spiced rice with cumin, cardamom, cloves and sage.(1)" In addition, pasta is also widely eaten, which is often served with a heavier stew than the Italian pasta sauce. Samalis often have dinner at 9p.m. However, during Ramadan, which is the ninth month of Islamic calendar, the regulations in Koran requires muslims must keep fast, and stop eating from sunrise to sunset, what’s more, they also need to pray before dinner, so sometimes they eat as late as 11p.m. after they are done with pray. During their dinner time, they often eat cambuulo. "Cambuulo, a common dinner dish, is made of beans mixed with butter and sugar. "(1)
Pasta (image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chicknspag.jpg )
Cambuulo (image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Somali_food.jpg )
Education:
Since the war in 1991, the schools in Somalia are almost closed, adult illiteracy rate has soared 76%. However, in recent years, there is a significant increasing in the number of schools, many areas begin rebuilding primary schools. What’s more,it aslo remains the basic system of traditional religious instruction in Somalia
New Mogadishu University campus
Economy:
"According to the data of CIA and the Central Bank of Somalia, Somalia
Government:
In 2004, the Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs), the key foundation government,was installed. The TFIs includes the Transitional Federal Charter (TFC), the Transitional Federal Government, and the Transitional Federal Parliament.
The flag of Somali (image source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Somaliland.svg )
Work cited:
Preparation:
For my third interview, since I asked lots of questions about religion in last two interviews, I thought I needed to know more information about their real life and culture. Thus, I decided to focus on the parts of their life and change my contents of my last questions, I added some questions about their family, traditional clothes, job and so on.
Then I printed out two copies of my new questions, and I looked for some people who were free in library. At last, I found a girl who was sitting on the sofa in the first floor, and I approached to her. Her name is Nawal, and she is from Sudan , which is part of Africa . She is very nice and glad to help me. After we introduced our each other, and chatted for a while, we both felt relax and comfortable, then I started to interview her.
Interview:
Interviewee: Nawal
Interview: Qing Ren
Location: first flood in library
Time: 11/16/2011
Me: What’s your name?
Interviewee: I’m Nawal.
Me: Where are you from?
Interviewee: Sudan , the country in Africa .
Me: What’s the weather like in your hometown?
Interviewee: It’s very hot and warm, hot all the time, no winter at all. First time I came here, it’s autumn, and it’s white and so cold.
Me: When did you come to the U.S.
Interviewee: 2002, I am going to stay here for 10 years and graduate in 2012.Me: What’s your major?
Interviewee: My major is Biomedical Science, and minor is chemistry.Me: So after you graduate, what kind of job would you like to find?
Interviewee: I want to be a doctor at school.Me: That’s cool, so what do men or women usually do after they graduate/ what kind of jobs do they look for?
Interviewee: I think it is really dependents on people who take the majors are. Like me, my major is Biomedical Science, and I am looking for a job in chemistry school. Most of them are looking for jobs.Me: When do men or women usually get married in your country?
Interviewee: Now it’s a little bit different. But before they used to get married early, they got married between 17 to 22-years old, but it was just for females. Usually, males were a little bit older. Because males usually went to university, they needed to graduate from university before they got married; they needed to make money for their family. For females, they just graduated from high school, and then they got married. However, now I think the time has changed, females also study in the university, and they may get married later than before. I don’t really know the exactly the age, but I think it’s between 23-year old to 25-yeear old for the female. Women also need to find jobs.Me: So most of female are working after they get married, right?
Interviewee: Yep, that’s what I’m talking about. But this situation may just happen in the Me: I think it is sweet that at least one parent stay with their children at home, I think it’s good for their kids.
Interviewee: Yep.Me: Then how many family members do you usually live together?
Interviewee: We live very closed to each other; our houses are very connected with our relative. The whole family lives around one area. I think most of people live in this way. It’s very nice, and I really like it.Me: Could you please tell me more about your family?
Interviewee: Yep, but what kind of question do you want to ask? Me: Such as ‘how many sisters or brothers do you have, and what are your parents do?’
Interviewee: I have two sisters and one brother, and I am the middle child, the third one. My mother does not work, she is house wife, and my father is businessman.Me: What’s a type of sport in your country?
Interviewee: I think it is soccer, we also have other sports but soccer is the number one, everybody plays it. Me: What do you usually do during your free time?
Interviewee: I like to hand out with my friends and I also have relation in city, I usually go here and stay with them.Me: Do you like watching TV show?
Interviewee: I do like it.Me: Do you like reading?
Interviewee: Now I do not read novels a lot, because I have to read my biomedical textbooks, it’s difficult, and I do not have much time to read some interesting books which I like. But as I was young, I read as much as I wanted to.Me: What are your traditional clothes looks like?
Interviewee: For male, they wear long white clothes; it’s just like Sudanese clothing. They also wear different types of hoods between old men and young men. For female, the clothes are very similar to the dress of Indian women; they have long, colorful cloth that can cover everything. Me: Ok, I think that’s all, and thanks for your time.
Interviewee: No problem, I hope it’s helpful.Me: Have a nice day.
Interviewee: You too.Personal impressions report:
To be honest, I felt really comfortable about this interview. In my view, it was not only because of my experience last two times, but also because of the talkative girl. Before we started to interview, we chatted for a while, which made me feel as we were old friends. Therefore, we had a smooth process for the whole interview; I also could hit on one or two new question that I didn’t add to my original question paper. However, nothing is perfect, during the third interview, I noticed that I had some questions that made Nawal difficult to answer, and I didn’t show my questions very clearly, so it might confuse her. I need to pay attention about this detail, if I have chance to interview somebody in my future. All in all, I had a wonderful time during my third interview.
Global Communication
Nowadays, with the rapid development of global communication, more and more people rely on them to know more about the colorful world. There is no doubt that the global communication can bring people varieties of convenience, however, at the same time, global communication has many hidden peoblems which will also affect people’s life.
Global communication has positive impact on education, business and culture. First of all, since the increasing of network teaching, disable people can have more opportunities to learn the same courses as others. Through global communication technology, such as Internet, TV and radio, they can experience unprecedented happiness just for staying at home. In addition, It is more convenient for students to learn new knowledge by using Internet. It not only can save a large amount of time for students to search information, but also can save merchants’ precious time on business meeting, which means that merchants can discuss to each other through network video without finding a specific place to attend the conference. Based on more free exchange of products, merchants will face to more intense competition by using new technology. The last but not least is culture. Language is no longer a huge obstacles between culture and culture. What’s more, since culture has become extensively globalized, the local food, clothes and architecture spread widely to other countries, and most of them have become popular outside.
Global communication not only has advantageous aspect, but also has disadvantageous aspect in education, business and culture. For education, it will increase the opportunities for teenagers to see violent scenes on TV and Internet, and it will harm the physical and mental health of teenagers. Since we have lots of information from various channels, it will give students more opportunities to plagiarize. It is also not safe about commodities trading such as illegal trafficking drug. Besides, economic crisis has higher probability to happen as a result of the more closely interaction and communication between countries. For instance, the terrible economic crisis in 2008, which caused the public to be full with panic and many people lost their jobs in the global scope. Even though, global communication breaks down cultural boundaries around the world, and strengthens the process of cultural globalization, it will bring negative effects on their local cultures. Up to now, more and more original cultures are merged and adapted by foreign cultures. Some unique characteristics of the original cultures even disapear in the history of human civilization.
All in all, global communication is not right or wrong in nature. It just dependents on what people think about it and how people use it. If it is used in good side, it will give the human society and human civilization a big step to cross ahead, however if humans make its development out of control, it would influence many people’s life in a bad way.
work cited:
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Outline of global communication
Introduction
Nowadays, with the rapid development of global communication, more and more people rely on them to know more about the colorful world. There is no doubt that the global communication can bring people varieties of convenience, however, at the same time, global communication has many hidden peoblems which will also affect people’s life.
Thesis statement:
Global communication not only has advantageous aspect, but also has disadvantageous aspect in education, business and culture.
Ideas: education, business and culture
Body
1. Advantage of global communication
A. Education
a. To be convenient for disable people
b. For students to learn different culture
B. Business
a. To save time on business meeting.
b. To increase the competition.
C. Culture
a. Language
b. Clothes
c. Food
d. Architecture
2. Disadvantage of global communication
A. Education
a. To increase the opportunities for teenagers to crime.
b. To give students more opportunities to plagiarize.
B. Business
a. More dangerous about commodities trading.
b. Economic crisis
C. Culture
a. To impact the original culture
Conclusion
Global communication is not right or wrong in nature. It just dependents on what people think about it and how people use it. If it is used in good side, it will give the human society and human civilization a big step to cross ahead, however if humans make its development out of control, it would influence many people’s life in a bad way.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
The Second Interview
Country report:
Geography:
Climate:
"Due to Somalia
Animals in Somali:
Because Somalia is located in the tropical zone, Somalia
cheetahs (image source: http://www.bing.com/featured/content/search?q=Animal+Moms%3A+Cheetahs)
Languages:
The official languages are Arabic and Somali, which is the mother tongue of the Somali people, and the second languages are English and Italian, which used to be a major language.
Religion:
Most of residents believe in Islam, which is the state religion. Less than 0.01% of Somalis are Christians. Islam is the monotheistic religion which is taught by Koran and Holy. And its adherent, called Muslims, they believe in the one and unique God, whose name is Allah. Muslims’ main purpose in life is to worship God, who sent many prophets to mankind, including Ibrahim (Abraham), Musa (Moses), Isa (Jesus) and so on, but ultimately, Muslims believe that the last message is sent to prophet Muhammad. Islamic law actually touch each level of somalia South Asia , and 20% of muslims in Arab countries. Most of the muslim countries are Indonesia
Muslims from all over the world to pray together. (image source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kaaba_at_night.jpg )
Cuisine:
Somali cuisine is influenced by native Somali, Ethiopian, Yemeni, Persian, Turkish, Indian and Italian. Usually, they drink tea (shaah) to start the day, and the main dish in breakfast is pancake. For lunch, "which is an elaborated main dish, somalisoften use spiced rice with cumin, cardamom, cloves and sage.(1)" In addition, pasta is also widely eaten, which is often served with a heavier stew than the Italian pasta sauce. Samalis often have dinner at 9p.m. However, during Ramadan, which is the ninth month of Islamic calendar, the regulations in Koran requires muslims must keep fast, and stop eating from sunrise to sunset, what’s more, they also need to pray before dinner, so sometimes they eat as late as 11p.m. after they are done with pray. During their dinner time, they often eat cambuulo. "Cambuulo, a common dinner dish, is made of beans mixed with butter and sugar. "(1)
Pasta (image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chicknspag.jpg )
Cambuulo (image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Somali_food.jpg )
Education:
Since the war in 1991, the schools in Somalia are almost closed, adult illiteracy rate has soared 76%. However, in recent years, there is a significant increasing in the number of schools, many areas begin rebuilding primary schools. What’s more,it aslo remains the basic system of traditional religious instruction in Somalia
New Mogadishu University campus
Economy:
"According to the data of CIA and the Central Bank of Somalia, Somalia
Government:
In 2004, the Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs), the key foundation government,was installed. The TFIs includes the Transitional Federal Charter (TFC), the Transitional Federal Government, and the Transitional Federal Parliament.
The flag of Somali (image source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Somaliland.svg )
Work cited:
Preparations:
To prepare the second interview, I removed some questions which was amphibolous for me, such as ’ how has your culture influenced your family values’, and I added some questions about religion. Since I were interested in religion, I would focus on questions of religion more than others.
Then I decided to interview my classmate, whoes name is Abdilcadir. He is from Somalia
I talked to him if he was willing to be my interviewee, and he said yes. Then I asked him was it ok if I asked him lots of questions about his religion, and he said it was fine to him. So I gave him a copy of paper about questions and let him prepare it.
After one day, we made an appointment on computer lab in ECC after math class. Then we started to conduct the interview.
Interview:
Interview: Qing Ren
Location: computer lab in ECC
Time: 11/08/2011
Me: What’s your name?
Interviewee: My name is Abdilcadir.
Me: And where are you from?
Interviewee: I am from Somalia
Me: Which part?
Interviewee: South side.
Me: How about the weather there?
Interviewee: It is hot and humid.
Me: Which part of view do you like best in your country?
Interviewee: The beach, Somalia is near the Indian ocean , and it has a long coastal line, so the view is beautiful there.
Me: What kind of sport do you like to play?
Interviewee: Soccer, I play soccer with my friends near gym.
Me: How about your education system?
Interviewee: It’s normal education. Eight years for primary and middle school, four years for high school.
Me: And I also heard someone said you had religion schools…
Interviewee: Yep, we have the religion schools, maybe when you were 4 years old, you went to complete religion school. So we have two kinds of school, one is normal school as the schools in U.S.
Me: That’s cool, so do you read Islamic book in that afternoon?
Interviewee: Yes, we do that.
Me: And do you also pray during that time?
Interviewee: Not really, we pray 5 times a day, such as we pray in the morning, at noon, or in the evening. So we don’t need to go there, we can pray everywhere.
Me: So when you pray, do you go to the temple?
Interviewee: Yes.
Me: Do we have the temple here?
Interviewee: No, not at school, but we have it in the St.Cloud city.
Me: Could you please tell me more about the Islamic book?
Interviewee: We follow the teaching of the Islamic book every day, the book tells us to help poor people, to be nice and respect to other people, to worship only one God. We just pray for one God, whether you are rich or not, we are equal, we all pray at the same time side by side.
Me: That’s so nice. In addition, do you have some rules when you pray?
Interviewee: Ok, it’s a long story. In general, we pray toward northeast. But actually, there is a city called Mecca, which is in Saudi Arabia, and if you are Musilm from China, your face needs to toward this city when you pray, if somebody else are in other place, when they pray, they also need to face to this city, so all the Musilms around world need to face to this city when they pray.
Me: So do Musilms go to this place together every year?
Interviewee: Yep, someone goes there every month, if you have enough money. You know, last Sunday, it was our holiday, called Eid adha. We also have a holiday called Eid fitr, which is a big holiday for us, just as Christmas in U.S. Mecca
Me: Ok, just one more question, do you have some rules about eat animals or something forbitten to eat?
Interviewee: Yes, we eat fish, chicken, turkey except pork, and we also don’t eat dead animals outside because it’s unhealthy.
Me: Ok, thanks for your time
Interviewee: That’s ok.
Personal impressions report:
I was very excited about this interview. Not only Abdilcadir told me lots information about his religion, but also he was a talktive person. I were relax when I talked with him, I didn’t need to figure out much more other questions to conduct him to talk more. He naturally told me lots information which I want to ask to. What’s more, because of the country report of Somalia , I knew some background about Somalia
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