Cultural Interview Questions

Introduction
This paper discusses the culture in many aspects on my chosen interviewee. Throughout this interview we discussed many aspects throughout his culture from how he grew up, rituals he inherited growing up as well as his own rituals he developed for himself to include throughout his day, family traditions, issues of racism and discrimination, and his opinion on different things within his culture. This interview did not take up the full hour, but with me giving my interviewee the freedom to talk freely about his culture I obtained a lot of information that I could incorporate into my paper. I met up with my interviewee in the library on the second floor for a face to face interview, it was not just completely quiet, but it was quiet …show more content…
He particularly mentioned eating seafood, his family would sit on the floor with a stove that sits on the ground and they would cook different types of meat and seafood. To him and his family this was like a good time of gathering together and interacting as well as good food and memories being made every time they come together for this gathering. He also informed me on another dish they would cook called Pho (‘Fuh’), which he stated is like Vietnamese noodles (as he called them flat noodles), consisting of chicken broth, meats and vegetables, this too is a cultural favorite for him and his family. Jake also informed me on a big holiday that is important to them, which is the Chinese New Year. On this holiday the whole Asian community usually takes part in which consists of multiple days of festivities. During this holiday most who participates gather lots of money and pass it out as a sacred of good luck in the New Year, being that the more money you issue out you are prone to have better luck versus the less you give out the less luck you will have. This is a yearly cultural thing that takes place in his culture, being that to them money is one of the most important things. Engaging in this tradition from the way my interviewee talked about it this has impacted him in a way that holds memories from experiences on this …show more content…
In this class we also talked about that occurring in the chapter that discussed Asian Americans and the stereotypes they encounter living in the United States. In high school Jake played basketball and being that he was the only Asian American on the team opposed to playing with all African Americans mostly game days were not always fun for him. He informed me that sometimes he would get encounter people yelling racial slurs at him being that he was Asian American. Although his team members accepted him there were still others that did not see him in the same light that his team mates saw him and that is where the racism peaked. This particular situation affected him greatly being that he was on a team where there were little to none that looked like him and also the fact that many tend to say words do not hurt in actuality they do because in the end words and what people say play a part in feelings and how you sometimes tend to feel about yourself. I, myself speaking from experience I can say that I am sure he felt a greatly affected by how he was treated being the only Asian American. After reading, watching videos, and completing discussions pertaining to Asian Americans, it was different to hear firsthand that someone had racial slurs yelled at them for looking and being different than the others around him. That was something that I would