What is the point of this assignment? I am not sure. The actual assignment is to interview a person belong do a different culture than I belong to. Ok I can do that. Why am I interviewing them? The assignment says to get to know people of cultures other than my own. Ok cool. Growing up in California allowed me to grow up around a rainbow of people and my work for the City of Phoenix has turned that rainbow into the proverbial “double rainbow.” My favorite uncle is Mexican, his children, my cousins are mixed race; at work I have and still work with several African-Americans, as well as Hispanic-Americans, even Asian-Americans. I call them all my friends and when looking for someone to interview I saw them as just Americans, people of the same culture as I am. Does that mean I know what it is like to grow up black or Mexican or even Japanese in America? Not in the slightest. And that more than anything is what I think the point of this assignment really is. Not to figure out how to talk to someone different than you; but to figure out who that person actually is and that, after some fits and starts is what I set out to do here.
The subject for my interview is one of my before listed co-workers, Mr. Cynthia McDuffey. She is an African-American who, like I said before, hadn’t even considered asking to interview because I did not see her as being different …show more content…
As a group that is just as American as my culture, African Americans and white Americans like the same foods. Neither one of our groups really have something a grocery store would categorize as “ethnic” food. One thing the interviewer and the interviewee have strongly in common is that we love bar-be-que. I think it’s wonderful when all cultures can have something that they have in common that they love. I left it at just bar-be-que because if I asked which type (Kansas City, Texas, Tennessee, Carolina, etc.) of bar-be-que we might have a
The subject for my interview is one of my before listed co-workers, Mr. Cynthia McDuffey. She is an African-American who, like I said before, hadn’t even considered asking to interview because I did not see her as being different …show more content…
As a group that is just as American as my culture, African Americans and white Americans like the same foods. Neither one of our groups really have something a grocery store would categorize as “ethnic” food. One thing the interviewer and the interviewee have strongly in common is that we love bar-be-que. I think it’s wonderful when all cultures can have something that they have in common that they love. I left it at just bar-be-que because if I asked which type (Kansas City, Texas, Tennessee, Carolina, etc.) of bar-be-que we might have a