Cultural Interview Essay

The cultural interview is to invite someone different culture than themselves and to prepare questions to talk about the differences and similarities between the two participants. The person I chose to interview is my boyfriend David. The reason why I chose to interview him because of his status he is an immigrant in this country. I would like to know the consequences of being illegal immigrant and what's the reason behind he came to this country. I told him I was going to interview him but he didn’t know I was going to ask him questions about his status which was for me was a bit frightening because I know many people don’t like talking about their status and now more because of our president. David came to my house on November 1st around 5 o’clock while waiting for him I made a cup of coffee to take to the park. Once he came to my house we walk to my neighborhood park to do the interview. We sat down at a bench and he thought I was going to ask him basic questions tell me about yourself but never knew they were going to be deeply personal questions.

Hispanic parents are known for many different characteristics and habits that make their children’s lives unique to other cultures. Such as how in order to go out you had to slave away the day before or even hours before in order

It was always odd talking about my culture because we as Hispanics are very family oriented. As a kid, I hardly spent time with my friends outside of school. My cousins were my friends. For Lahiri, it was difficult to get along with her friends as well. She states, “In addition to my distinguishing name and looks, I did not attend Sunday school, did not know how to ice-skate, and disappeared to India for months at a time. Many if these friends proudly called themselves Irish- American or Italian- American” (Lahiri 98). I can relate to Lahiri because I understand where she’s coming from. I would visit el Salvador nearly every summer, and none of my friends would even know. Since my parents could barely communicate with my friends, it was hard to spend much

To me being Hispanic means so much more than how I look, how I dress, and how I act. To me being Hispanic is the pride that I have in myself, for my culture, and the connection we as Hispanic/Latinos have as a community. With being Hispanic/Latino one grows up with traditions that have been around for many years. Quinceañeras being one of them. For my family having a quinceañera was the way of telling family and friends that I was turning into a woman. On the other hand, those that are not in the Hispanic/Latino community can throw a Sweet Sixteen party for their children to show their adulthood. Other things that may vary within heritages are traditions for certain holidays. For example, Christmas, every year we as a family travel to each

I come from a Hispanic family, and Hispanic families tend to have various traditions to mark different events in the life of a person. A very important event in the life a Hispanic girl is the day of her Quinceañero, also known as the day of the fifteenth birthday. According to tradition, a young girl turns into a woman when she reached fifteen years of age. When I was younger, I always said I did not want a celebration for my fifteenth birthday.

Relationships between generations is something that is very significant in any community but in the Hispanic community there are some specific norms and customs that parents would like the children to continue on with well the children

One of the limitations of this study was that it only explored two nationalities, and as Umaña-Taylor and Yazedjian indicate, “do not represent the vast diversity” in regards to ethnic heritage (2006). Another limitation cited was how the study gathered its participants; the study did not include any Latino mothers who were not involved in their community. The missing data of these inaccessible contributors could have provided a wider sample, although the challenge understandably would be how to correctly involve these peoples. Umaña-Taylor and Yazedjian mention the expansion of this study could include the experiences of how other ethnically diverse multi-generational families handle the problem of integrating traditional culture with newer generations

After reading the article by Nuñez and Pfeffer, I learned that over 1.8 billion youth people practice several types of traditions: celebrations, faithfulness to their religion, and rituals as symbolism of either manhood/womanhood, maturity stage, or strength. I believe some cultures created their ceremonies to mark “coming-of age” due to changes in the women's and men’s bodies (puberty). I believe cultures are honoring and accepting the young people in their families and society for all the hard work and accomplishments. For Hispanic coming of age tradition, it’s a chapter in part of the Hispanic women’s life as representation of their maturity, womanhood, and opportunity to be gratitude towards God. Once entering into womanhood/manhood, young people change their personality and their attitudes compared to when the young people were 4 year olds. Therefore, their society and family celebrate these old customs as a gratification of their coming of age.

Although I am middle-aged, I have never traveled outside of the United States nor have I had the privilege to experience a wide diversity of cultures. Other than research or articles that I have read throughout my life, I have little knowledge pertaining to other cultures. However, through my former employment and my daughter, I have some experience and knowledge of the Hispanic families that relocated to our area.

A professor of education at the University of Hawaii Kathryn Au wrote an article on Culturally responsive education titled “Culturally Responsive Instruction as a Dimension of New Literacies” in the article she talks about how she sees culturally responsive instruction as a theme running through literacy curriculum aimed at helping students of diverse backgrounds achieve high levels of literacy in their education. also how the idea behind culturally responsive teaching is that the teaching approach build upon the strengths that students bring from home cultures, instead of ignoring these strengths or requiring that students learn through approaches that conflict with their cultural values. Culturally responsive teaching has the goal of helping students grasp academic concepts through means and content responsive to their cultural values and practices.

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what does righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with and unbeliever? (2 Corinthians 6:14-15, NIV) .

First I will speak about my Hispanic culture and how my American culture has mixed in and made me a more “modern Hispanic”. As many people know our family is the cornerstone to our community and we are very close as a unit. In fact we are so close knit that I actually live in the same neighborhood as some of my family members and my grandma lives with my family. Grandparents play a big role in our culture so it is not uncommon to live with them or nearby. Fathers are the accepted head of the family and the mothers are responsible for the maintenance of the household. The usual tradition in my family is to ensure that the senior members pass down the Spanish language among the young. The younger generation in my family failed to uphold this tradition. We no longer pass down the Spanish language because we have lived and learned the American way for so long and we know we can get away with just knowing English. Another very important tradition is the respect, good manners, and the importance of honor. I learned this at a very young age from my grandparents and parents. One way we show this is the way we greet each other, my family is very big on greeting with a kiss on the cheek and hugging. This shows respect but also the togetherness of our culture. As you can see my culture is very much so about the love and we genuinely care about each other’s well being. This is a very great element that is beneficial to our health. As studies have showed “love keeps the doctor away.” Also another positive element is the fact that our family members are less likely to become depressed because we never feel isolated.

The cultural experience I had was a baby shower. I usually go to baby showers for my family and never for any other family. This baby shower was a Hispanic friend’s sister and it was different in many ways. When I walked in I saw many people already playing games and having fun. There were many games at the start such as the baby in ice and the one involving diaper pins. Those were two games that would last the entire occasion which I was informed of after being told I couldn’t play. A short while later people went and said a few words about the parents to be. I could not understand most of what was said because it was in Spanish, but I got a few words. Next came the food it was very unusual in my daily diet. They served chicken with mole,

What does cultural identity have to do with me? Well it basically has to do with what you love doing and how you feel about things. Cultural identity is the identity of feeling a person’s self-conception. The things that I like to do are play soccer with my family and friends, listen to music when I am angry or sad, I also love to draw pictures that pop into my mind when I see something gorgeous, cooking food is my favorite thing to do for my family and some of my other relatives, and taking care of animals that can’t take care of themselves. Those all make up my happy, loving, and fun side that I have in me.

In this paper, I explore the main methodological principles that shape my culturally responsive and emergent research design (Berryman, SooHoo, & Nevin, 2013; Nodelman, 2013). My meth-odological explorations reflect the research purpose and theoretical framework (Denzin, 2009; Leavy, 2014; Shugurova, 2015a). The purpose of my research is to describe and explore some of the local learning practices of a trans–Himalayan kingdom of Lo Mustang (Lo) before schooling was introduced in the 1950s (Reed & Reed, 1968; Shugurova, 2014a, 2015a). My rationale is to give voices to the local people and listen to their stories about their historical experience of learn-ing (Bowers, 2001; Gruenewald, 2003; Patton, 2002; Smith, 2012; Shugurova,