Saturation Assignment Questions Notes Describe the PLACE: Where are you? What do you see? What do you hear? What do you smell? At St. Mary's Square. A large statue of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, the founder of the Chinese Republic. Also, a busy city. Lots of noise. Sounds of buses, people, and drum beats from a far. Looks like a lot of fish being cooked around. Describe the PEOPLE: Who is around you? What are they doing? What are their interactions? What is the mood of the people? Of the area? A lot of older men and women and children in the nearby park. Men are mostly playing cards or checkers; some of reading newspapers. Women seem to gather together for conversations, but a few are performing tai chi, which is really beautiful. Children are playing around. The mood of the area is very cheerful. Seeing the people in that mood boosts mine and makes me more enthusiastic! Describe your FEELINGS: How do you feel? What memories come to you? I feel myself in a different environment than the rest of America. This place truly makes me feel I am back in Asia. In a way it reminds me of the first time I came to the United States. Everything was different but I was excited. But strangely enough, this time being saturated in an Asia-like environment gives me the same feeling. Conversations: What pieces of conversation do you catch? What languages? What do the conversations indicate about the relationship? Write down bits of conversation you
The setting is in Muji, China during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. The leader of the communist party at the time is Chairman Mao and ruled based on a Marxist model by the story mentioning the concrete statue of him in the center of the square. The author states that “the Cultural Revolution was over already, and recently the Party has been propagating the idea that all citizens were
Until now my experiences in this country had been very special to me. For the first time, I had to be away from my family. I was forced to make every decision without being reliant on the wisdom of elders. For the first time, I saw and spoke to
On July 11th, 20011, my life was forever changed. In that day, I moved from Congo to the United Sates. It was excitement and fear at the same time, because my life was no longer the same. When I arrived in Atlanta, I realized how much efforts and sacrifices I had to make to adapt the American culture.
When you are in an intercultural relationship you can learn exactly what there communicative behaviors are. Everyone has their different ways they communicate with other people, whether it is family or friends. Communication is by far one of the most important keys to have when you are in a relationship. Without communication there would be no relationship. One of the unique aspects of an intercultural relationship is to learn how and why that individual communicates in a different way compared to you. Having an intercultural relationship is all about learning someone else’s culture and communication is by far the most important aspect.
I came to US during my 8th grade and that was a life changing moment in my life. It was first time traveling aboard and that also not for a trip but for to permanent settlement. I was nervous my whole time been in the plane that how I will cope up with new environment and with bunch of English speakers. I got more. When it came pilot call for, that it's time to land on the Detroit Airport, tighten your seatbelts and be relax. As soon as the plane landed on American soil, I knew that this was the place where I’d to start a new life. Even though I knew America is the “Land of Opportunity”, everything here seemed so strange to me, the streets, the language and the people that was my first time traveling abroad.
I walked around unsteadily all day like a lost baby, far away from its pack. Surrounded by unfamiliar territory and uncomfortable weather, I tried to search for any signs of similarities with my previous country. I roamed around from place to place and moved along with the day, wanting to just get away and go back home. This was my first day in the United States of America.
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The articles “Sex, Lies and Conversation: Why is it Hard for Men and Women to Talk to each other” by Deborah Tannen and “Speaking Different Languages” by John Gray are about how men and women often misunderstand each other which causes conflicts and or arguments. When a woman says something it usually has a deeper meaning, but men are usually more direct when speaking; this leads to conflicts and relationship problems. According to Tannen and Gray, men and women can adjust their thinking to minimize misunderstanding by translating each other’s dialect, by understanding their different ways of listening, and different body languages.
Stepping out of my first plane ride, I experience an epiphany of new culture, which seems to me as a whole new world. Buzzing around my ears are conversations in an unfamiliar language that intrigues me. It then struck me that after twenty hours of a seemingly perpetual plane ride that I finally arrived in The United States of America, a country full of new opportunities. It was this moment that I realized how diverse and big this world is. This is the story of my new life in America.
Just as many other communities, men and women participate in different leisure. In main stream society, boys typically play football or baseball for fun, and girls typically play with doll and other domestic toys. Amish communities are very similar. The men tend to participate in hunting, fishing, archery, and mountain climbing. The women tend to enjoy singing and attending social events (Kraybill, Nolt, and Johnson-Weiner, 2012).
Paying attention to what is said and the body language will allow you to find what is important to this relationship. It may be a casual, professional or personal one. All are important. Be it a conversation with your parents, clerk at the grocery store or a resident in a nursing home
On September 24, 2010, an airplane carried me to the ground of another country, to another dialect, new culture, new places, new habits, new challenges, new people and all in all, new life. I won't describe for you a lot about how hard it was to say farewell to all my relative and my friends, because I think you can picture yourself what would it feel like to leave everybody you know in your own country and move to America. When you leave your adolescence home — the place where you grew up, your local area or your country of residence or your homeland or anyway you feel to call it — you leave a piece of you behind. Before I came here in America, I thought that I would be in Hollywood, cozy house, bunches of tall structures, however to my mistake
not knowing United States was in a different country, my heart started beating with excitement.
What it means to me to be an American is a great feeling. I feel as though other
Groger concluded that data saturation probably took place in her research despite the gatekeeper bias and its consequences of not achieving the maximum variation sampling. She contended that refusal cases did not have influences on her findings by assuming that the reason for refusal would be their commitments and values on the culture of caring. She agreed that generalizability is not the important notion in qualitative research because qualitative research work emphasizes on meaningful utterances of the participants and data saturation for these meanings. On the other hand, she doubted on the data saturation of her research work because of high refusals to participate. Based on this experience, she pointed that qualitative researchers should