For my interview paper, I decided to interview Katelyn Masket. Katelyn is a recent USC graduate and studied international relations. Through our interview and research on LinkedIn, I learned Katelyn had interned within multiple areas of the public sector and currently is an associate with the International Rescue Committee located in Glendale, California. Her previous background and current employment interested me and made me want to reach out and ask her views on citizenship and what it means to participate. I conducted a phone interview with Katelyn and she may be reached at (805) 558-1804 or by email at Katelyn.Masket@rescue.org. The idea of citizenship has long been instilled and molded into the lives of people all around the world.
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This status and role may be formally codified in terms of qualifications, rights and obligations by constitutions, charters and laws, or informally determined by values, tradition and consensus.” (Cooper 5).
What’s important about this quote is how Cooper not only defines the idea of citizenship as having rights within a community but also having obligations too. It is interesting to look at that quote and compare it to not only how I felt personally, but also how the person I interviewed felt. To understand this I will now review what my interviewee and I discussed and how our views either coincides of differ from one another. To start off my interview, I started with many may think is a simple question as I asked my interviewee to explain to me her definition of citizenship. My interviewee paused to think and then said “citizenship is becoming legally part of a country, getting all of the rights that people who belong to a country get, and also performing the responsibilities that come with being a citizen of a country.”. Comparing that to my ideas of citizenship I found that there were similarities within the two. My personal definition of citizenship is to be formally bound to a community that you have a relationship with and thus granted certain rights and freedoms. Even though both definitions differ in their ways, they both touch on some of the main ideals of citizenship. So now with the comparisons of our views brought into the conversation, I will dive deeper into my interviewee’s views and how they can relate to the idea of citizenship and public
This status and role may be formally codified in terms of qualifications, rights and obligations by constitutions, charters and laws, or informally determined by values, tradition and consensus.” (Cooper 5).
What’s important about this quote is how Cooper not only defines the idea of citizenship as having rights within a community but also having obligations too. It is interesting to look at that quote and compare it to not only how I felt personally, but also how the person I interviewed felt. To understand this I will now review what my interviewee and I discussed and how our views either coincides of differ from one another. To start off my interview, I started with many may think is a simple question as I asked my interviewee to explain to me her definition of citizenship. My interviewee paused to think and then said “citizenship is becoming legally part of a country, getting all of the rights that people who belong to a country get, and also performing the responsibilities that come with being a citizen of a country.”. Comparing that to my ideas of citizenship I found that there were similarities within the two. My personal definition of citizenship is to be formally bound to a community that you have a relationship with and thus granted certain rights and freedoms. Even though both definitions differ in their ways, they both touch on some of the main ideals of citizenship. So now with the comparisons of our views brought into the conversation, I will dive deeper into my interviewee’s views and how they can relate to the idea of citizenship and public