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The Circle of Relations
As you enter the world of host country social relationships, you need a good map to guide you. This exercise asks you to construct such a map or chart showing how both you and your host country friends relate to and regard other people.
PART ONE
| Below is a series of rings or concentric circles with you in the center. Look at the list of types of people which appears below and then place each type in one of the rings, nearer to or further from the center depending on any or all of the following criteria:
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- how closely you are involved in that person's life and vice versa;
- how responsible you feel for the happiness and well-being of that person and vice versa;
- how much of your inner life, your most private thoughts and feelings, you share with that person and vice versa;
- how much that person "means" to you.
You may add other types of people and leave off any on the list that don't apply to you. Feel free to add to the rings if necessary or to draw your own chart if the placement of the rings doesn't suit you. Don't worry about being too precise; the idea is to get a general sense of the personal and emotional closeness you feel toward these people.
| Your parents |
Your grandparents |
| Complete strangers |
Your first cousins |
| People you've met once or twice |
Your closest friends |
| Your brother(s) |
Your aunts and uncles |
| Acquaintances |
Your second cousins |
| Good friends |
Your children |
| Your spouse |
Your in-laws |
| Your sister(s) |
Your boss |
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