Project I-57

 n=  47  (two 9th-grade classes with same team teachers, 23 and 24 students respectively)

ages: 13-16
gender:
              females:  21
              males: 26

ethnicity:

 African-American/black - 1
 East Asian - 1 (Philipino - 1)
 European-American/white:  - 16

(Polish - 2, Romanian - 1)

 Latino -  7

(Mexican -3, Puerto Rican - 1, Ecuador - 1)

 Other:   (47%)

 South Asian - 1
 India - 10 (Malayalam - 1,  Keralam - 1, Moslem - 1)
 Pakistan - 3 (“religion Muslim” - 1)
 Assyrian - 4
 Arab - 1  (Palestinian - 1)

 Mixed race:

 Polish-Philipino - 1
 African-Italian - 1

 no response - 1

no response - 4

in US - 20 (42%)

USA - 3
Illinois - 1
Chicago - 11
Evanston, IL - 1
Niles, IL - 1
Park Ridge, IL - 1
Lake Arrowhead, CA - 1
Phoenix, AZ - 1

outside US - 23 (49%)

India - 8
Pakistan - 2
Mexico - 4
Russia - 1
Romania - 1
Ecuador - 1
Poland - 4
Iraq - 2

no response - 1
10 years or longer - 28 (60%)

whole life - 9
most of my life - 1
15 yrs. - 2
14 yrs.- 9
13 yrs.
12 yrs - 2
11 yrs.
10 yrs. -  5
9 yrs. -  1
8 yrs. - 4
7 yrs - 2
6 yrs.  - 4
5 yrs. -   4
4 yrs. -  2
3 yrs. -  1

yes -   29     (62%)  "yes, no comments" - 1
no-  6
no answer/crossed-out answer -   7
no present family, only “great, great grandparents” - 1
ambiguous = 2

(“my 2 brothers in Chicago in the city”)
(“no, not outside.  only my baby sister was born in Chicago”)
 
 some family born in other states (by Indian)
 cousins in St. Louis, Wisconsin
 other parts of the US (by Polish male)

yes - 26   (55%)
 no - 7
 no response - 8
 ambiguous response - 2
 no present family, only “great, great grandparents” - 1

India - 9

whole family: India -- 4 ,  parents: India - 2
 parents, 1 brother: India - 2 (youngest brother born in US)

Mexico - 4      (whole family:  - 2 parents:  - 2)
Poland - 4 (whole family- 2, father - 1)
Iraq - 3 (parents and 2 brothers in Baghdad - 1, father - 1, every relative - 1)
Philippines - 2 (parents - 1, mother - 1)

Pakistan - 1 (parents)
 Russia - 1 (whole family)
Romania - 1 (parents)
 Ireland - 1 (father (0-18 yrs))
 
 Middle East (Iraq?) - 1 (parents)
 Greece - 1 (sister in Greece)
Palestine - 1 (parents)
Syria - 1 (mother)
 
 some family born in “other country” - 1

 (some said yes with !)

yes -  31
no - 8

(African-American female, Italian-American male, Indian male, Serbian-American male, Polish male, Mexican male, Assyrian-American male, Arab-American male)

 “No, they’re all Serbs”  (Serbian-American male)
 “No, and sometimes I hang around with anyone; it doesnt’ matter what color they are” (African-American woman)

no answer - 7
don’t know - 1
ambiguous answer - 1  (“Yes, I’m Indian.”)

description of friends:

 Polish, Hispanic, Black, Greek (by European-American female)
 Russian  (by Indian female)
 Mexican, Polish, American  (by Eur-American female)
 Puerto Rican, Salvadoran, Ecuadorian, Brazilian, Peruvian, Chicanos (by Latino female);
 too many to mention  (by Latina-American)
 Indian - I (by Pakistani female)
 Assyrian (by Indian female)
 Italian, German, English (descent), Polish, Mexican, Guatemalan (biracial American female)
 Yugoslavian (by Indian female)
 Asian, Indian (by Russian female)
 African-American, East Asian, Native American (by Romanian female)
 Indian, Serbian, Polish,Korean, Irish, and German (by Filipina)
 Assyrian, Spanish, Puerto Rican (by Polish female)
 Latino, Native American, “all kinds of backgrounds” (by Polish female)
 Hispanic-Mexican (by white American female)
 Hispanic, Americans, Irish, German, etc. (by Assyrian-American female)
 Korean, Pakistanis, Americans, etc. (by Indian male)
 German, Polish, Jewish (by Indian male)
 Jewish (by Assyrian male)
 Mexican, Polish, Serbian, Black (by Eur-American male)
 Polish, Russian, Israel, Mexican (by Indian-American male)
 Serbia (by Mexican-American male)
 American, Indian, Hispanic friends (by Polish male)
 a lot - Asian (by Irish-American male)
 Italian (by Pakistani male)
 Serbian, Arabian, Americans, African Americans, Pakistanis (by Assyrian male)
 Russian (by Indian male)
 White, blacks, hispanic, etc. (by Pakistani male)
 Polish (by Indian male)

No response - 1

 English only -  8

 Another language only - 6    (Malayalam - 1, Spanish - 3, Italian - 1, Polish - 1)
 
 Answer ambiguous - 2
 (parents speak “some” English only, and later -  ”only” Jamaican)
 (wrote “no coments” after c. “Both English and ____”)

Both English and other language - 30

Other language:

 Gujarati & Hindi - 2
 Gujarati - 4
 don’t know how to spell it - 1 (male born in India)
 Urdu - 4
 Malayalam - 2
 Spanish - 4
 Serbian - 2
 Russian - 1
 Romanian - 1
 Jamaican creole (English) - 1
 Polish - 3 (and a “little, little French” - I)
 Assyrian - 2
 Assyrian & Arabic - 1
 Assyrian & Armenian - 1
 Arabic - 1

yes-  23  (“kinda not really” - 1)
 no - 23
 no response - 1

friends or relatives there?

 yes -  10  (“parents’ friends - 1)
 no - 34   (“no, but by there” - 1)
 no response - 1
 ambiguous response - 1

("yes, all of them” by male who never visited a small farm town)

yes -  0
no- 44
no answer - 2
don’t know - 1

yes -  32  (68%)
 no - 12
 no answer- 2
 answer ambiguous - 1

Wisconsin - 12
California -11
Indiana -  10
Florida - 10
NY - 8
Missouri- 6
Michigan - 6
Georgia - 5
Texas - 4
Tennessee - 4
Ohio - 3
Arizona -  3
Minnesota - 3
Kentucky -2
NJ - 2
Hawaii - 2
Pennsylvania - 2
Kansas - 2

One student only:

New Mexico, Nevada, “Michangton”, Maryland, South Carolina, Colorado, Montana

(several thought Canada was a US state)

yes -  33    (38 - if 5 more respondents born in a foreign country are included) - 81%
 no -  12   (7)
 no answer -2

India - 9 (by Indians and Indian Americans)
Canada - 8
Mexico - 6 (by Mexicans)
England (“London”) - 4
Italy - 3 (by part Italian-American - I, by Italian-American -1)
Pakistan - 3 (by Pakistani or Pakistani-American - 2, by Indian-American - 1)
Greece -2
Ireland - 2 (by Irish-American - 1)
 
Yugoslavia - 1 (by Serbian-American)
 Serbia - 1 (by Serbian-American)
 Poland - 1 (by Pole)
 Sweden - 1
 Russia - 1 (by Russian)
 Japan - 1
 Philippies - 1 (by Filipina)
 Europe - 1 (by  Pole)
 Syria - 1 (by Assyrian-American)
 Iraq - 1 (by Assyrian from Iraq)
 Muscat (Oman) - 1

yes - 31

“yes, in 5th grade”
“a little”
“Yes, Springfield and Chicago”
“yes, last year in junior high about Abe Lincoln”

 no -  15 (“but I like to learn on my own” - 1)
 no answer - 1