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Presenter: To keep the well oiled bureaucracy of Scottish politics working
away smoothly, a whole host of young people slave away in the parliament,
helping MSPs with their hectic lives.
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Office scene. David Silbert walks to Matt Snyder's desk. They look at a paper
together.
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Presenter voiceover: David Silbert from Las Vegas and Matt Snyder from Ohio
have been helping with research and general office duties. But they really
want to find out a bit more about Scotland and our political life. So how
did they get involved?
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Matt Synder, American Intern: Well, I'm a political science major back home
and through my department they sent all our majors an email just letting
us know about the programme and a website we could go to to check it out.
That's how I first became involved.
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Closeup of David Silbert talking.
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David Silbert: I'm a history major back in the United States and I was looking
for an opportunity to study abroad for my junior year. I was basically just
going through different websites and I stumbled across this internship through
the University of Edinburgh, and, well, here I am.
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Closeup of Matt Synder talking.
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Matt Synder: It's definitely different than American politics. I really like
the accessibility of Scottish politics, like in Question Time. You can really
tell that it's a newly evolving system where you don't have the old, ingrained
politicians of the American political systems.
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Closeup of David Silbert talking.
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David Silbert: Very different than the United States, but I really appreciate
the familiarity, and the fact that it's so new has just been incredible,
to be here at such a groundbreaking time for Scottish politics and get to
see it from the very beginning. I look forward to following it in the future,
as well.
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