Исследовательский проект "Стереотипы Британских и Русских семей"

Meet the new stereotypes

Project made by
Kozhevnekova Alexandra
and Balatskaya Victoria
10 B lyceum №329

Teacher:
Chupina Lyudmila
Alexandrovna

Saint – Petersburg

2014

• Hello!
  My name is Kozhevnikova Alexandra!
•  And my name is Balatskaya Victoria!
  We are students of  lyceum № 329, Nevsky district,
  Saint – Petersburg.

The name of our project is «Meet the new stereotypes», and we chose this theme, because we wanted to know how Russian and English teenagers  are informed about life of each other.

Introduction:

And the aim of our research is: 
Explore the opinions of  Russian and English families about each other, and find out how they correspond to the facts.

The hypothesis of our project is:
The opinions of Russian and English families about each other correspond to the facts at 70%.

The plan of our research you can see on the screen:
1. To interview Russian teenagers about English families and theirs.
2.  To interview English teenagers about Russian families and theirs.
3. Process and analyze the results of the interview.
4. Compare with the facts.
5. Make a conclusion
6. Find out if our hypothesis corresponds to the facts.

We asked Russian teenagers and English on Facebook more than 50 questions about their lifestyle, family structure, type of  houses, hobbies, animals and so on. Then we analyzed their answers and compared  them with the facts. Here you can see some of the questions.

Type of houses

One of the questions was "What is the type of a house your family live in?"
There were only two types of answers: "Cottage" and 'Flat'. The results of the interview you can see on the diagrams. Let's look at Russian opinions about English families. Here you can see two colors: orange - English people tell us about themselves, and green - the Russians' opinion about the English!

92% of the Russians say that English people live in cottages and 100% of English respondents really live in cottages.
And here you can see English opinions about the Russians. 67% of  English people think that the Russians live in cottages like them, but only 4% of Russian respondents say that it's really true!

So, in this question the opinions of the Russians about the English correspond to the facts at 92% and the opinions of the English about the Russians correspond at 37%!

Type of food

Next question was "What kind of food is preferable in the family?"
And there were two types of answers "Home food" and "Fast food"!

Only 56% of the Russians think that English families prefer home food. But in fact it is 92%. It's interesting that 100% of English people said that Russian families like home food, and in  reality it’s about 92%.

So, in this area the opinions of the Russians about the English correspond to the facts at 64%,  and  the English about the Russians correspond at 92%

Sport in family

Next question was about sport.
And there were two types of answers "family does sport" and "family doesn't do sport"!

Only 60% of the Russians think that English families do some  sport. But in fact it is 90%. And 80% of English people say that Russian families do some  sport, but it's only about 48%.

So, in this area the opinions of the Russians about the English correspond to the facts at 70%, and the opinions of the English about the Russians correspond at 68%.

We had a talk on Skype with an English girl to show her answers in video interview, and also we made a video interview with our friend to show you Russian opinion too!

Conclusion
We asked a lot of  different  questions and analyzed them! Here you can see the table
with the results of the interviews.

Our research showed that in all areas the opinions of the Russians about the English correspond to the facts at 75% and the opinions of the English about the Russians correspond at 72%, and it's really about 70%, as we supposed!

And we think that our hypothesis is confirmed!

Final

• Finally we want to say that during our research we  compare not only  the opinions, but also we’ve found out, that a lot of  English think that we live like them, but the Russians think that there are a lot of differences between our  lives.

• Also we understand  that we know about the English more than they know about us!  We know about them from different films and soap operas, but the English don't have any films about the Russians!
• And we understand that we are interested in their life more than they are  in our life. We see it in our answers lists. The Russians supposed and answered all the questions, and the English often said ‘I don’t know’ and ‘I can’t say’!
• This research was very educational and interesting for us. We met a lot of English friends and will communicate with them in the future!

We would like to end our presentation with a quotation by Stephany Mayer, contemporary American writer of fantasy genre. She said:
Whatever it was, we all live in the power of stereotypes. And the more interesting when life gives us an opportunity to destroy them!      

This project has been made by us, Kozhevnekova Alexandra and Balatskaya Victoria, and our teacher is Chupina Ludmila Alexandrovna.