Immigration Interview

We got to interview people from other places that immigrated to the United States. Our group interviewed Miss Sulayman and Mrs. Hildebrand. Miss Sulayman is from Indonesia and Mrs. Hiledbrand is from Hong Kong. One of the stereotypes that the U.S. had about Indonesians is that they think that Indonesians are Asian. She said that when she first arrived at Calvin College, her roommate was guessing where she came from, and she guessed everywhere like Asia or China, but not Indonesia. This shows that the U.S. sometimes has wrong stereotypes about other people. She came here to go to college. She said that her family had always known that she was going to go to the U.S. for college. This shows that in Indonesia, they sometimes plan out that they will go to college from when they are children. Mrs. Hildebrand showed us pictures of Hong Kong and all the different foods and holidays. She told us that in China people are always grown up in the Buddha religion. There are many temples in Hong Kong. For Christmas, they light up buildings with many lights that say ‘Merry Christmas’ and other Christmas greetings. They have double decker busses that if you are on the top level, when you turn, one side of the bus tips. Mrs. Hildebrand said that it was really scary riding the top of the bus. It was very cool to get to interview people from other countries and learn more about other countries.

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