TASK 4                          

                   HOFSTEDE' S FIVE DIMENSIONS

Legenda: Pergamena = studenti americani
          Stella = me stessa

        
REPORT ON THE SOCIOMETRIC QUESTIONS.

The three American people that I interviewed said that friendship is an important value and that the majority of their friends were school mates.
Two out of three said to question n° 3 that they prefer to go pubs, discos, nightclubs and to do shopping, instead the third person hates shopping but he loves pubs, above all drink.
To question n° 4, they said that talk about boys and girls, jobs, movies, travels and future.
To question n° 5, one out of three said honesty and loyalty, another boy said funny and the last one said that a friend has to be close to you when you have problems.
To question n° 6, two out of three said they would be close to him/her and helping in the best way that they can, the other boy would be disposed to sacrifice a part of his life to help his friend.
They see their friends everyday.
To question n° 8, one out of three said that he lives in New York, he has a friend who lives in S. Francisco who suffered from depression; he decided to go to S. Francisco to help him. He lived there for 8 months. The other boy said that he used the parachute with a friend, while another boy used the bungee-jumping with his friend.
To question n° 9, they prefer female friends (... but they laughed, so I think that they are more interesting in sex than in friendship!). They said that they don’t know if the friendship between men and women exists, they said it depends on the friends.

BEHIND MY SOCIOMETRIC QUESTIONNAIRE.

The implicit social model in my sociometric questions is an Italian one.
For Italian people friendship is very important, so I thought that for American people friendship could be important as for Italian people.
Honesty, loyalty and amusement are the dominant points of friendship. 
In my opinion, the three American boys were spontaneous and not embarrassed; the question more difficult for them was the 8th, in fact they thought a little bit or because they didn’t' t know what to say. 
In conclusion I find out that for the three American people friendship is really important.

THE RESULT OF MY ETHNOGRAPHIC QUESTIONS.

Thanks to my ethnographic questions, I discovered that Italian and American people have the same values in friendship, so my hypotheses is right but I was amazed by the fact that the three American boys have more extreme experiences with their friends.
In my predictions I said that American people, in my opinion, are more open mind about relations between men and women, but after my questionnaire I understood that also in the United States there are prejudices, in other words a man prefers to have a beautiful friend because, almost always, at the beginning he is interesting not in friendship but in other.

I felt that there was empathy, because I laughed with them, they were kind, we were not formal and we have found funny each other. 
We were on the same wave length.

MY JUSTIFICATION.

I believe that it is easier to fall into subjectivity, but I think that I succeed to limit the risk of distortion; in fact I interrupted my interlocutor many times to be sure to understand clearly what he was saying. I asked for clarification to do not make a mistake, even if to err is human.
I was aware to their body language, they were spontaneous, and they always looked in my eyes with firmness.
I was very interesting in their culture, thus I tried to learn something about their world.
I think that the focal point between two different countries and so two different cultures is communication.

SARA DE SIMONI  III  OCI  GROUP D