Cross-cultural interview questions
1. What do you think the important social etiquette in your culture will be?
2. What, if any, kind of action or language can be offensive to people from your culture but not to people from other cultures?
3. What foods, if any, are crucial or meaningful in your culture?
4. What, if any, eating habits are exclusive to your culture?
5. What foods, if any, do you avoid for religious, personal, or cultural reasons?
6. What changes, in terms of your diet, do you make to adapt the new environment here?
7. What will you feel if you are suggested to change your current diet?
8. What will you do if you want to preserve your food culture in other places?
9. What is your preferred learning modes in terms of acquiring …show more content…
Compared to people from my culture, people from American culture tend to consume more convenient foods, such as fast foods, frozen, or ready-to-eat foods. This has become their norm, even though sometimes they do not realize that. Moreover, some of them will regard snacks as part of their daily lives and something they must have whereas, in my culture, people will view late dinner as one of the important meals. Other than that, in my culture, we have a lot of festival foods and each of them has various meanings, which people from other cultures may not comprehend and vice versa. There are lots of local foods that some people have a strong attachment to and I am not even aware of. In terms of communication, most people in this population prefer to speak directly to the point although some people, such as people in my culture, would like to establish the rapport first. As regards the social etiquette, staring at the eyes of people is not showing good manners in my culture but doing the opposite can be offensive to the population I
1. What do you think the important social etiquette in your culture will be?
2. What, if any, kind of action or language can be offensive to people from your culture but not to people from other cultures?
3. What foods, if any, are crucial or meaningful in your culture?
4. What, if any, eating habits are exclusive to your culture?
5. What foods, if any, do you avoid for religious, personal, or cultural reasons?
6. What changes, in terms of your diet, do you make to adapt the new environment here?
7. What will you feel if you are suggested to change your current diet?
8. What will you do if you want to preserve your food culture in other places?
9. What is your preferred learning modes in terms of acquiring …show more content…
Compared to people from my culture, people from American culture tend to consume more convenient foods, such as fast foods, frozen, or ready-to-eat foods. This has become their norm, even though sometimes they do not realize that. Moreover, some of them will regard snacks as part of their daily lives and something they must have whereas, in my culture, people will view late dinner as one of the important meals. Other than that, in my culture, we have a lot of festival foods and each of them has various meanings, which people from other cultures may not comprehend and vice versa. There are lots of local foods that some people have a strong attachment to and I am not even aware of. In terms of communication, most people in this population prefer to speak directly to the point although some people, such as people in my culture, would like to establish the rapport first. As regards the social etiquette, staring at the eyes of people is not showing good manners in my culture but doing the opposite can be offensive to the population I