FAMILIES

• Talk about the importance of the family in your country and describe the make-up of a typical family unit.

• Compare living alone with living within the structure of a family.

• On U.S. TV, people like to talk in great detail about their family problems. How do you feel about this?

CHILDREN

• Compare child-rearing in your country to child-rearing in the United States.

• Has there been a change in the status of women in your country that has affected child-rearing?

MEN AND WOMEN

• In your opinion, do men get along better with other men, or do women get along better with other women?

• Which do you think is an easier role to play today: being a man or being a woman?

• Why do you think the divorce rate is rising so fast in Western societies?

• When do you think it's appropriate for a woman to ask a man out for a date?

• What if you could create the perfect lifetime companion? What kind of person would he/she be?

FRIENDS

• What does friendship mean to you? How does your concept of friendship compare with U. S. -style friendships?

• Compare someone you like very much with someone you don't care for at all.

OTHER RELATIONSHIPS

• Talk about an alternative social structure you know about, such as a commune, a kibbutz, akolkhoz, a collective farm, an ashram, asysterhood, a brother, a sorority, or a fraternity.

• How do you feel about pets? Talk about the pets you've owned or would like to own.

• How would you discribe an ideal relationship between an employer and an employee? Compare you ideal relationship to your personal experience of such relationships.

KEEPING IN TOUCH

• What if a young man from your country told you that he is homesick and miserable in the United States, and that he misses his girlfriend? What if he told you he thinks she may have lost interest in him, or may even be dating someone else? What would you tell this man to do about this situation?

• What if you had good news to tell someone in your country? Whom would you call first, and why would you want to speak to this person?

• What if tomorrow you arrived in your country on an all-expense -paid two-weeks visit? What would you do and whom would you see? What changes do you think peple would notice in you since your absence from your country?