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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Arabs, American culture, culture training, survey

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Geography

Abstract

The goal of this project is to improve interaction between Arabs and Americans by determining which aspects of American culture are hard for some Arabs to tolerate and why. The survey instrument consists of personal information which includes each participant’s age, gender, country, the extent of his/her interaction with Americans, length of residence in the U.S.,and English language and American culture training. Twenty experiences taken from the lives of Arab students at BYU comprise the body of the survey. The participants were asked if they “Strongly agree”, “Agree”, “Disagree”, or “Strongly disagree” with the feelings of the Arab in each true life situation. This survey was administered via E-mail, fax, and personal invitation to one hundred twenty-nine Arabs. Mohammad Abu-Mallouh personally administered the survey in Gaza and Inas Kotby administered the survey in Cairo. The information was then entered into a SPSS (Statistics Package for the Social Sciences) computer program, and analyzed according to the personal information given by each participant. I will display the twenty situations presented in the survey, share some of the statistical data, discuss problems encountered in analyzing the personal information, and give possible conclusions suggested by the data.

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