Cultural Interview Report

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My partner for my interview was Ruben Gonzalez. I thought that doing this interview was very helpful. It was cool to see how a different culture works, and their ideas on all kinds of perspectives of the world. I asked him questions that went along with all the dimensions of culture.
I started off the interview by asking him what his ethnicity is. He is 75% Puerto Rican, and 25% EL Salvadorian. His Father is half El Salvadorian, and half Puerto Rican, and his Mother is full Puerto Rican. He also mentioned how he is a little bit Jewish but dose not practice it. I then asked him was what his religion was? He said that he is not a religious person at all. His look on religion is that its just a organized and systematic way of getting people
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Ruben and his family are upper middle class. He wasn’t always upper. His parents were 16 and 19 when they had him. It was hard for them growing up, but when he got to high school it got a lot better. His mom earned two masters, and his father worked way into executive position at a company. The next question I asked him was what his Nationality is. He is American Puerto Rican and is 4th generation and his race is Hispanic. I asked him if being Puerto Rican has effected him growing up? He said never in a negative way, but they considered themselves upper class Hispanic. Although he doesn’t believe that, it taught him more confidence in himself growing up. One way he said it effected him was in elementary school, he was looked at differently because there was a lot of American and polish kids. But it never bothered him too much, he said it actually made him more accepting other other peoples cultures. I then went into the question of if he has ever been denied an opportunity because of being Puerto Rican? His answer to this was no. He never felt that he has been denied. He said if anything he feels like it has helped him especially with jobs. This has never happened with gender, but he said that it happened with religion. One time his ex girlfriends parents didn’t want him to date her because she was practicing Jewish and even though that he was a little Jewish, he was not as into it as her family

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