top of page

Writing 321 Interview Questions 10/19/2016

Interview with Chanravy Proeung (Cambodia)

  1. Ask Community Member

  • Who they are and to identify themselves.

  • Where are they from/reside and nationality

  • How old are they

2.  What are you doing currently? Do you have a job or are you going to school and if so for what?

3. Being a first generation American in your family, how was your life growing up? Was there any pressure?

 

5 When did you find out both your parents were refugees from Cambodia?

6 Has there been times where you have heard stories about the genocide from your parents perspective?

7. Where in Cambodia are your parent’s from? Do they have family still there or here in America?

8.  When did your parents come to America and how have they adjusted to the different culture here compared to Cambodia?  Have you yourself ever been to Cambodia?

9.  How old were you when you came to America? What do you remember from your time in Cambodia? (if applicable)

10.  What was the biggest challenge for you growing up in America?  

 

11. According to your interview with “America ReFramed” you work for a group called 1Love Movement. Can you explain to us what that is and how has it impacted not only you but others all across the country.

12. Can you explain what you yourself are doing towards the quest for refuge being a first generation here outside of 1Love.

13. Was working for 1Love your first choice as an occupation/ will you be doing this for the rest of your life?

14. Do your parents enjoy life here in the United States or do they want to go back to Cambodia?

15. From some research we as a group have done on you, it says that you have testified not only once, but twice at the United Nations in Geneva. How has that impacted you and the southeast Asian community you’re representing? Has there been an impact towards 1Love Movement?

16.Is there anything else specifically that you would like to talk about today?

17. Do you have any questions for us or anything you would like to tell the people who will be viewing this?

 

Questions to brighten up the mood. (Possibly asked during certain segments of the Interview.)

  1. Do your parents enjoy the food in America or Cambodia?

  2. What is an American staple that your parents are always wanting to eat?

  3. Where do your parents currently live/ Do they work?

CAMBODIAN INTERVIEW

GROUP PROJECT CONTRACT

 

Group Expectations

  • We expect to create a piece that does justice to our interviewee and shows the struggle, but also the empowerment of being a refuge.  

  • We will use each other's strengths to create one collaborated piece.  

  • We will encourage ideas from each other by having open discussions and allowing the time and mindset to bounce around ideas.

  • We plan to meet frequently to discuss the progress in our work, as well as editing as a whole.

  • We expect each group member to work willingly on the assigned material.

Group Procedures

  • We’re going to use iMovie since we all have macs. If one of us doesn’t have the iMovie software we can always get access to the Mac Lab in GHH.

  • We currently have a google drive folder going that we will be able to share files and information. As well as this we will be saving every segment that is edited in case our software shuts down.

  • We will name files with what it is (sound effect, audio clip, image, etc.), our initials,  and date that we last uploaded it/worked on it

  • Some of our schedules change week to week, but we know Wednesdays work well for us.  

  • Depending on what we’re working on that day will depend on where we meet.  Some locations such as the mac lab would be better than if we are just having a discussion time to bounce around ideas.  

  • We communicate through text and email between class and meetings

Personal Accountability

  • Everyone is expected to put in the same amount of work.  We each want this project to be a success and we know it will take a lot of time and effort.

  • Should one of us not meet expectations, we will try to handle it within ourselves and if it is exceptionally bad we will have to bring Professor Reynolds’ attention to it.

  • Personal efforts will be applied accordingly, not leaving any person or group behind in work obtained.

I hereby accept the following personal guidelines, procedures, and accountability statements implied above:

*signed*

-Anthony T. Noto

- Rebekah Ginsberg

-Sam Lugo

Interview Log

​

Was working for 1Love your first choice as an occupation/ will you be doing this for the rest of your life?

Chanravy:

1Love wasn’t my first choice. Went to university. Studied Nursing and wanted to go into the Healthcare field.  Want to go back into the field soon. Decided to be activist after cousin's suicide. Suicide is common for cambodian refugees so I wanted to stop that. Started at PRISM→ Executive Director→ 1Love. Didn’t pursue Nursing. Activist of Healthcare?

 

 

According to your interview with “America ReFramed” you work for a group called 1Love Movement. Can you explain to us what that is and how has it impacted not only you but others all across the country.

 

Chanravy:

1Love is based in Philadelphia. Organization that is based here in the United States but is going forwards to helping Cambodian refugees. Many of these refugees are being deported because they don’t have citizenship but this citizenship is currently very hard for them to obtain. US is just ignoring the fact they were in genocide and 1Love is trying to change that. People from Cambodia are doing everything they can to survive here even if it is working jobs Americans don’t want to do.

Cambodia today is still a very poor and unsafe environment. There’s the city part but the outskirts are something from a movie. Mom sold pineapple when younger and now others are doing the same thing. No Healthcare. Tourist only see the beauty of the country. Poverty in Cambodia v. Poverty in USA are two completely different things.

When did you find out both your parents were refugees from Cambodia?

 

My grandmother basically used to tell me when she was intoxicated early in my life. GrandMother was an alcoholic. Drank to get rid of the bad memories that she used to have in Cambodia. PTSD. Mother was born in camp so didn’t have full memories like Grandma. Aunts had rough time at these camps. Some of my aunts are only 4 months older than me because Grandma had kids starting at young age. Mom was pregnant at 18-20. Moved around a lot. Grandma told stories so that I can achieve more than what they had.

bottom of page