After awhile of deliberation i decided to interview my friend Brendan Mckain to see what he knew about the government. When i asked him what government meant to him he said "Government is the group of people that make the decisions for the country and on the country's behalf." I was surprised he had such a decent answer. My next question to him was which political issues he cared about, if any. He said he cared about global warming because it is effecting him directly. He hopes that whoever is elected next will somehow drum up the support needed to fix or slow it down. With that answer i proceeded to the next question which was what he thought about diversity in our country. He said "America is not like any country because when people are from France or Italy, usually they're either French or Italian, but we are the melting pot where all nationalities can live together." I was extremely taken aback by this answer but i agree with it wholeheartedly.
The interview was going along nicely, he was kind of more into it than was necessary but in the end it helped. My next question for him was how government affected his daily life. At first he was not sure, but i prompted him a little just like in our class exercise and he eventually came up with a bunch of reasons the biggest ways being his freedom of speech and public school. I then asked him what he thought about the us having a democracy. He replied that he could not see America being run any other way and that it was the best government. I also agreed with him on that.
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