Personal Narrative: A Cross-Cultural Interview

Introduction The non-clinical cross-cultural interview for this project was completed with a grandfather of an associate. My participant was the associate’s grandfather, and her grandfather is a youthful-looking 102 years old veteran, married male, who identifies as Filipino. In addition, he has been “happily” married for 73 years. When asked how did he manage to have a healthy and happy marriage; he responded by stating, “they did not drink, smoke, and always honest.” My interview process was a delight; I was intrigued by his age, humor, insight, and historical aspect of his life, in which he wrote an autobiography called “My Humble Life Story: as a Teenager”.
Across Generations
There were various reasons that my participant’s family (across-generations) decided to come to the United States. However, a several individuals of my participant’s family had positive perspective of the benefits of my participant moving to the United States with his family, regardless of how my participant viewed the country prior to arriving to United States. My participant viewed the United States as “the land of opportunity.” He indicated that his son petitioned him to come to the United States because he was a part of the US Navy. Since my participant was retired, he indicated that his …show more content…
Yet, I was shocked that with my participant because he did not foresee nor view racism the same as many older individuals who had traumatizing experiences. Mr. Low described racism as underestimating your worth and capabilities as a person because of your race and color. He experienced a vast amount racism while he was in the Philippine and he was always surrounded by family while in the community due to being an older age; because of his past experiences and his focus on positive outcomes and future opportunity for his family, he was oblivious to the extent of racism when he arrived to