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Activity: Investigating Life in Another Country

The following countries are the countries from whom most people applying for asylum in Britain come from: Iran, Somalia, Eritrea, China, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Nigeria.

As care workers, you may work with people from a range of nationalities, some of whom may be asylum seekers from these countries, and it is useful if you know something about the country of origin of the service user. Asylum seekers may have left their country because of political or religious conflict, and there will be a lot of aspects of their life and culture which they miss. By finding out about their culture, you will be able to understand more about their life before they came to Scotland and be able to provide them with a better service.

In small groups, pick a country from the list above and find out as much as you can about it. Two good sites to start your search are the BBC (www.bbc.co.uk) and the online encyclopedia, wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org). Present your findings to the rest of the class. Give at least 10 facts about the country in your presentation.

You might want to find answers to the following questions:

1) What are the favourite names for males and females in the country?
2) How many people live in the biggest city? What is it called?
3) What are the national foods?
4) Is there a main religion? How many people follow it?
5) What are the most common jobs?
6) What political party runs the country?
7) What are the words for ‘Hello’, ‘Goodbye’ and ‘Thank You’?
8) What are the favourite TV programmes?
9) What is the position of women in the country?
10) Is there anything the country is famous for?
11) What is life like for a teenager in your chosen country?