Next, we are interested in whether, when you were a child (age 18 and younger), you ever lived for 6 months or more in a situation when you experienced yourself as different from the other people around you, in any of the ways listed below (or other ways you can think of). NOTE - this experience of difference may have happened in your passport country. Here are some examples:
• [Which region of the country you were from] “From age 9 to 12, we moved from New York to Atlanta and I was the only northerner in my elementary school (about 400 kids).”
• [Religion] “In my middle school, most of the families were Evangelical Protestant. Mine was one of about 30% who were Catholic.”
• [Language spoken at home] “All the time I was growing up, my family was one of 10 families in my town of 150,000 who spoke German at home.”
• [Income level] “From age 3 to 12, we lived in a small, rural poor town where my father was the doctor and earned much more money than almost any other resident.”
• [Political beliefs] “I grew up in a town where almost everyone is a liberal Democrat; my family was Republican – maybe part of a 25% minority.”
• [Work status] “When I was in high school (about 2000 students), my dad became a stay-at-home dad – one of only three that I knew of.”
• [Race and ethnicity] “Until I was in high school, my brother and I were the only Americans of Asian descent in our neighborhood and schools.”
• [Exposure to other cultures] “My mother was head of our local high school exchange program so we always had lots of kids from other countries around our house and I remember feeling like I knew more about the rest of the world than all my friends."