Have you ever wondered what it is like to live in a different country? You would be living in a completely different culture; your entire life would be extremely different. You will most likely have different values and beliefs depending on where you live. There are so many different cultures all around the world and I knew next to nothing about them, so I thought that it would be extremely interesting if I studied the culture of one of the countries and compare their culture to the culture here in America to see how similar they are and how they they differ. There are so many countries out there and I had to decide on what country I would research on. I also wanted to interview a person in America who has experience the culture in that …show more content…
Both of my grandparents on my mother’s side of the family came to America from Ireland by boat in 1957, and they go back to Ireland frequency to visit some of their relatives currently living in Ireland right now. My grandfather knows a lot about the Irish culture which is why I asked him to have a full, in-depth interview with me about the Irish culture and he was more than happy to do it. My grandfather currently lives in a house near Buffalo, New York, which is around an hour away from Rochester, so I had to wait till Spring Break to go over there and interview him. I stayed at their house for a couple of days and during those couple of days, I interviewed my grandfather a total of three times and each interview took around thirty minutes. The interviews were not too long, however, he did give me a lot of neat stories about his time in Ireland. While I was there, some of my uncles and aunts, who visited Ireland many times with my grandfather, also told me some stories about their time in Ireland when they were out on vacation. Since my aunts and uncles were born in America, which means they are not really a part of the Irish culture, I decided not to have a full-depth interview with them, but it is always nice to get some extra stories about