Why is it that one of the first questions people always ask you when they meet you or feel they have to get to know you is where are you from?  But it never ends with the questions….it’s like they have to make some type of connection with where ever you are from…”Oh I have a friend of my best friend’s cousin who once had a five hour lay over in the air port there”……

I think it’s pretty interesting the questions that people choose to get to know you through.  What is your favorite color?  Where did you go to college?  I wonder why we ask such random questions that really don’t tell you much about a person…or at least don’t always tell you much about a person.  It clues you in on some stereotypes and I guess gives the interviewer some type of sense that they have gained some type of knowledge of the person..as if knowing where a person is from combined with their favorite color, gives some type of deep insight into their psyche. 

When did we first decide as a culture that we need details of everyone we come in contact with…and when did these questions become the standard?  It just seems to me in all of the conferences and convention type things that I have gone to, very rarely does anyone ever ask me what I do that relates to why we are there working together in the first place…instead they think they need to ask some random questions because….society says so I guess.