In debriefing your interviews as a group, you need to come up with an aspect of that culture that you want to do some kind of empirical diagnostic for, which will involve some American guinea pigs, and then your informant in your second interview.
For example, your literature and/or informant may have said, don’t display anger. Well, displays of anger can be extremely relative to the culture and to the individual.
1) So you could find 5 or 10 still photos or video clips that display what you would interpret as displays of anger (and some you wouldn’t ) and
2) Show them to about 5 people (per each group member) and ask them what emotion/affective stance you think the figures in the photos/videos are expressing. If you can find samples from members of your target culture to include in your diagnostic that would be more excellent. (Lebanese people looking mad to you, etc)
3) After asking what emotion they think is being displayed, ask them what concrete clues in the photo (etc) they judged to be evidence of the affective stance they attributed to the nonverbal behavior.
4) Then take that same diagnostic to your informant in your second interview and ask them to do the same rating task (obviously without first telling them what the Americans you surveyed concluded).
5) Write up what you've been able to determine about the system of the target culture based on your findings
6) Include this in your final presentation
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