For my interview I chose to interview my 56 year old aunt Mara, from my mom’s side of the family. We share similarities in that we are both Dominican-American, the difference being that I was born here, where she lived the first thirty-Five years of her life in the Dominican Republic, then assimilated into American culture. In the Dominican Republic she was a doctor of medicine, she practiced there for five years until she married her second husband, who was an American citizen. Mara had three children from a prior marriage, and when she was pregnant with her fourth child her and her husband, Tony, decided they wanted to give their children a better upbringing than may have been possible in the Dominican Republic. Since she wasn’t completely
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There is some separation between church and state, however that line is quite vague in the Dominican Republic, for example, many school still often integrate prayer activities in schooling. A question that I had on my mind was that if she thought if she thought it would be any different in difficulty when trying to accomplish her goals if she was a man? She was a bit dumbfounded by the question and took a few minutes to think, before replying, “There’s no way to really know, but I feel that it would have been slightly easier as a man, seeing how we live in a patriarchy.” I asked if she ever encountered prejudice or stereotypes against her, and she responded “yes, but rarely, for a few years I was working in an office, I saw an elderly Caucasian woman with a nice purse, I asked her about it and she responded, Yes it is this brand, don’t steal …show more content…
“You don’t really see people out on sidewalks/patios playing dominos, or whatever the American equivalent is, maybe monopoly?” I followed up and asked if there were any aspects of the American culture she disliked, she said, “maybe this is just personal, but I don’t really know any of my neighbors.” And what she liked “I like some of the extra liberties which americans are allowed to have.” Like what? “Well everything on the constitution, and how we have easy access to a good
There is some separation between church and state, however that line is quite vague in the Dominican Republic, for example, many school still often integrate prayer activities in schooling. A question that I had on my mind was that if she thought if she thought it would be any different in difficulty when trying to accomplish her goals if she was a man? She was a bit dumbfounded by the question and took a few minutes to think, before replying, “There’s no way to really know, but I feel that it would have been slightly easier as a man, seeing how we live in a patriarchy.” I asked if she ever encountered prejudice or stereotypes against her, and she responded “yes, but rarely, for a few years I was working in an office, I saw an elderly Caucasian woman with a nice purse, I asked her about it and she responded, Yes it is this brand, don’t steal …show more content…
“You don’t really see people out on sidewalks/patios playing dominos, or whatever the American equivalent is, maybe monopoly?” I followed up and asked if there were any aspects of the American culture she disliked, she said, “maybe this is just personal, but I don’t really know any of my neighbors.” And what she liked “I like some of the extra liberties which americans are allowed to have.” Like what? “Well everything on the constitution, and how we have easy access to a good