What is your history? What is your home of origin? Why did you/your family settle there?
Create a 3-5 page APA paper (7th edition) based off interviewing a person of a different culture.( the interviewed person can be you since ill be actually turning it in so you can write about you as the interviewee if youd like or someone else)
(questions for interview are below..do not include questions in paper) ( detailed directions below)
Breakdown format for paper :
1. Background information on interviewee e.g. gender, age etc. (2 points)
2. Summary of Interviewee’s story. (2 points)
When you are addressing this section think about the challenges that your selected person may have faced. Did they assimilate into main stream culture, or did they try to maintain their culture? Were they judged, met with resistance, had feelings of sub, or stereotyped, discriminated against, or feel unwelcomed or welcomed? Were they able to purchase items such as food and clothing that supported their culture, or were they forced to purchase mainstream attire and foods due to unavailability? Were they met with organizational barriers, as well as language barriers when they were seeking employment? Were their abilities or disabilities recognized and accounted for? Was there evidence of respect, or lack thereof? Please be aware of the weight of “difference”, and how change on the outside fuels change on the inside. Read pages 47-49 in the textbook in order to grasp a better understanding of barriers.
3. Birth Order (5 points)
In this section you are to research the topic of birth order and include birth order in this section. This means you will research “birth order” and document the information that you found from a creditable source.
“Credible sources are written by authors respected in their fields of study. Responsible, credible authors will cite their sources so that you can check the accuracy of and support for what they’ve written.”
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/establishing_arguments/research_and_evidence.html
*You are to report your birth order and quote the characteristics of your own birth order from a creditable source. (1.5 points)
Do the characteristics that you researched fit your own birth order? Yes? No? Provide examples. (1 point)
*You are to report the birth order of the person that you interviewed and quote the characteristics of their birth order from a creditable source. (1.5 points)
Do the characteristics that you researched fit their birth order? Yes? No?
Provide examples. (1 point)
Interview Questions to guide conversation/paper
You may select questions from this list to guide your interview, as well as add your own.
1. What is your history? What is your home of origin? Why did you/your family settle there?
2. Do you work and what type of work do you do?
3. What are some of your family customs and roles of members within your family? What isyour role in your family? Does birth order play a role in your family position or custom?
4. How closely do you identify with and affiliate with your culture? How assimilated intothe mainstream culture are members of your family and how well is that accepted by threst of the family?
5. What are the gender roles in your culture? And in your family?
6. What religious or spiritual beliefs are influential in your culture and for your family?
7. What are your family beliefs about around child rearing and discipline?
8. What would be the characteristics and practices of people who are considered to beexcellent parents in your culture?
9. What are the power structures in your family? Is age a factor in who has power? How aredecisions made at the family and community level?
10. Who holds positions of formal power in your culture? Who are the most powerful informal leaders in your community? Who held positions of power in the past?
11. What is your concept of health? What are customary health practices and beliefs? Who is responsible for and influences health care? Do you use home or folk remedies, a healer, shaman or some other traditional or spiritual healer?
12. What is your concept of time? Is this the same as others in your culture?
13. What is your concept of personal space? What is considered appropriate touch betweenpeople of various relationships? (Consider how people greet each other when they are first introduced, when they greet friends, when they greet relatives)
14. How can you communicate effectively in your culture? Consider the meaning of tone of voice, gestures, eye-contact, overall body language, terminology used to describe health, and face-saving behaviors.
15. Identify and verify customs, beliefs, and practices that might be misinterpreted by established institutions within your community e.g. schools, law enforcement, social
services, health care providers (this includes such beliefs around certain body parts such
as the head, male and female circumcision, cutting or puncturing the skin, transfusions,
autopsies etc.
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