Interviewing
a student that came from a different country could be a very challenging task,
but with it comes many wonderful benefits. The international student and the
interviewer may face communication issues throughout the interviewing process
and it could be quite the struggle to feed questions in English to a person who
grew up not speaking the language, but if the interview turns out to be successful,
not only would the two people who were involved with the interview have a
better understanding of that particular country, but everyone else who reads
the transcribed interview. Learning about a different country and the culture
and history it came with can be a very rewarding thing.
Another
big problem that may have to be overcome on the interviewer's part is coming up
with questions that would not be offensive in any way to the person they are
interviewing. While you are giving an interview, you want the person to tell
you everything they know about their country and the experiences they have had
there and extract as much information from them as possible. If you were to
accidently offend them by asking a misleading question, the interviewee may
close themself up to you for the rest of the interview and that would result in
receiving minimum information from them. The interviewee could start answering questions
with shorter answers and not give you the full detail and their own personal
opinion because they feel uncomfortable. By carefully picking out questions and
practicing the way you should feed the question could avoid this whole
misunderstanding and lead you to having a better interview.
By
having a successful interview, you would have extracted precious information
that could be used to have a better understanding of that country and its
people. Expanding your knowledge about the world outside of your own country is
something that could potentially bring people together.
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