Foreigner Interview

Have both open ended and specifically directed questions to take advantage of the major benefits of asking cultural questions to a foreigner in your own country.
This benefit is that they will probably have experienced some form of cutural shock - that surprise we experience in finding out that things we take for granted and assume to be natural in our own culture are not the way they 'do it here'. Cultural shock gives us a level of clarity we don't usually have about cultural values and expectations of both our own country and of the country we are visiting.

So use this by asking questions like:

'Have you experienced any cultural shocks about the differences between the way we ......and the way that you ....?

If you want to avoid this academic term, 'cultural shock' then you could phrase it as '...experienced any surprises about .....' instead.

You could use this as both a general or open ended question and for some specific aspects of life that you want to investigate.

You could also ask questions about public transport/ relationships between the public and the police/road manners/inter-age or inter -generational relationships/issues of gender interaction/level of helpfulness of strangers

Include too some more open ended questions as there could be something that is important to them that you might not have considered .for example;
''what things are you homesick for?'
or

''are there some aspects of life here that you disapprove of in comparision to the way things happen in your home country"

''are there some aspects of life here that you prefer in comparision to the way things happen in your home country"

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I've always found it surprising how small cultural differences can create the biggest cultural shocks.

You might find this Sociology paper about the way that Indonesian men judge the Australian men, who visit Bali, quite surprising and useful for considering unsuspected cultural differences