Interview

INTERVIEW

The below mentioned interview is with a person who belong to Saudi Arabia and has been living in Canada for quite a long time with his parents. The questions asked, were associated with his cultural background and upbringing. This interview has provided us with greater understanding and insight into being a Saudi national and being brought up and raised in two extremely different and diversified countries with variant cultures. I am extremely grateful for giving away the opportunity for interviewing me. I think it could result into much better understanding of each other's cultures and learning from the life experiences.

Kindly share something about your personal life:

I and my parents have been living in Saudi Arabia and Canada, though I am a Saudi national. I have lived in both the countries for 11 years each and spent last year in South Korea as a Professor. Living in Korea has been full of difficulties associated with my identity. As I belonged to the extreme minority status, that leaded to questioning over my norms.

As you are among those people who have experience two diversified cultures and spent almost equal time in both the countries, i.e. Saudi Arabia and Canada, had there been timing when you felt more Canadian or more Saudi? Could be give away reasons of the response too:

I generally had a feeling of being stereotype, when I am living in the other country. So, I had been feeling more Saudi, when I am in Canada, and more Canadian when I used to be in Saudi Arabia. I feel this has been happening to be because of nostalgia, but more significantly the way people think of me and I am being treated in both countries. I have always been considered a foreigner in both countries, as I am not able to completely ...