Name ___________________________

Date____________________________

American Studies period ___________

Unity/Diversity primary source history research paper

Name of Interviewee _________________________

M/F

Age_____

Race_____________________________

Ethnicity_________________________

Highest grade level/highest degree earned____________

Socio-Economic background__________________________________

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1. What unites us as a people?

2. What divides us?

3. Have you ever felt or experienced racism?

4. What groups in our area face discrimination?

5. How have your views on this topic changed over time?

6. Is it important to be united?

7. Can we be too diverse?

8. Can we maintain “Americanness” with too much diversity?

9. Should we as Americans tolerate all groups?

10. What divides us the most in Port Angeles – gender, race, class, or religion?

B. In Washington state?

C. in the U.S. as a whole?

11. What distinctions do you see between a group and an individual within that group?

12. Does getting to know an individual within a group change the way you view the group as a whole?

13. Do we need hate and fear to unify us?

14. Other question?

For each interview, submit all of your notes on their answers and then summarize each person’s view of unity and divisions in a separate paragraph (that would be five paragraphs total).

Compare and contrast the five responses to your questions in a two page essay, focusing on the ways they are similar, the ways they are different, and what they say, as a group, about unity and divisions.