What follows is a Question & Answer Interview with Christian.

Q: How many members are there in your family?
A: 4

Q: What are the ages of the children?
A: 17 and 22.

Q: Are both parents living at home?
A: Yes.

Q: How many members are working to support your family?
A: 2

Q: What do they do for work?
A: Father is an auditor; Mother is a teacher.

Q: What is your opinion on the issues and status of your nation?
A: Brazil was, some time ago, one of the poorest countries around the world but now it's getting much better.

Q: What are your thoughts on the conflicts in Kosovo & Serbia?
A: It's come from a problematic past. The same problem has happened in other areas of the world and it has been solved without big wars.

Q: How is your family directly being affected by the problems/and or good things from relations with other countries?
A: I could say that my family is not much affected by this, but there is in the South America an area of free taxes among Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay...This has helped internal industries to grow.

Q: Tell of any family experiences in the past decade or so, such as how you have survived hard times, or good times, etc.
A: The last decade (80's) were hard for Brazilians because our economy was passing through an stagnation.

Q: What is your opinion on the USA, and their involvement with NATO in Kosovo?
A: Unnecessary. It was just a political strategy, 1st: because there were other conflicts like this and nothing was done by NATO, these other conflicts were farther from Europe, so, there wasn't necessary to assure that ''Important Countries'' would be safe; 2nd: USA was going through scandals and to hide the suits of internal national issues and to lead Americans attention to the war between Serbia and Kosovo.

Q: How is your family doing financially?
A: Very well

Q: What do you think about your country's government?
A: It's a very good one, it is leading the country to an economic stabilization.

Q: What has your government done to take care in stopping any problems?
A: There are many projects which seen to be very helpful.

Q: Or, in positive cases, what has your government done to avoid them and stay successful?
A: The government is showing concerning about peoples problem and trying to solve then all, what sometimes seems to be very hard to happen.

Q: Is there something you really like about your government, or something you really don't like?
A: I really like the way the president leads the government, he's an serious and respectful man.

Q: What do you think could change for the better in your government?
A: They could make the internal renovations faster so that the country would find the economic stabilization sooner.

Q: What kind of education have the children received, or are receiving?
A: My older sister (now she's 22) studied in a public school until the high school, later she did the private university. And about me (17 years old), I'm attempting the last year of high school, next year I intend to be in the university, what will probably happen.

Q: What are some traditions/rituals of your culture that your family abides to?
A: My family is, as the most ones in Brazil, a Christian Family, but my sister is quite spiritualiat and I'm a pagan.