International Links

OK, so I am a nerd and found my little international project interesting and thought I would share. My project was to interview people in a group (the ski team) about any personal international connections they may have. I talked to John, Adam, Karyn, Joe, Christi, Nicholai, Patrick and myself. We established 27 connections (connections not people, if one American knew several international people all linked in one spot, I counted that as 1 connection. For example, all the people I know in Peru were counted as 1 link) in 19 countries: Canada, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, England, France, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, Kenya, China, New Zealand and Saudi Arabia.

Norway had the most connections (4) followed by Germany (3). The vast majority of the connections were formed by the foreigner coming to the United States, not by us going abroad. Most of the links were formed through education (exchange student etc.) with skiing being the second most common form of connection. The number of links an individual American had seemed to be correlated to personality, opportunity or circumstance and not by age, gender or geographical origins. I thought that for only 8 people on the team that was quite a few connections! Thanks for all your help, and hopefully I will get an A.