I believe that I will be comfortable working with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. I will have a certain level of flexibility in functioning with different group of people. This is because my most of the profile dimensions are in the middle of the extreme ends. This means that I can easily adjust in any kind of environment. On comparing my Cultural Profile with my home country's plot, I found that there is a very close relation between them.…
For this interview, I decided to interview my mom Lucia because I feel that out of all my family members she's the one that has gone through the most. My mom came to the U.S for her kids to have a better lifestyle and better education. At the end of the day, she accomplished what she wanted because both my siblings and I have had a great education. However, she also had to give up a lot, for example, leaving her family members behind and having to start a new life in a place where she doesn’t know anybody. Another reason she came to the U.S was because of the money.…
Mom was small, a slight 110 pounds but through my eyes, she was large, even after my height surpassed hers. To this day, she would argue that she weighed only 100. Her strong presence claimed her space, and anyone else's that she cared to. Being right was of utmost importance to her, and she made sure always to have the last word. Overbearing, and overprotective of me, her only child, she usually controlled every situation, regardless of how trivial.…
My Culture I am a mix of two cultures. I am half Mexican and half American. Even though I am half Mexican, my spanish isn’t good. I can’t speak spanish fluently and I tend to strudder a lot. My spelling is pretty bad too.…
I was born in San Francisco to a single mother, and I have never known anything different. My mother provided an incredible life for me, for which I am eternally grateful. At the age of eleven my mother decided it would be financially best to relocate to Casper, Wyoming, where she would have the help of her family to raise me. Although the move was extremely difficult for both of seeing that we created friendships and bonds with people that we would no longer see as often, my mother has never made a decision she didn’t think was best for both of us. My mother always puts my well-being first which has given me my love of helping others.…
I've always loved different cultures and tried to surround myself in as many as possible however I could. This was usually me trying to learn on my own from the internet, music and movies, but I was still missing that X factor that really made me indulge in other cultures. As soon as I walked onto Swarthmore's campus I felt that X factor. Sitting in the info session and taking the tour, I truly felt at home. The small diverse campus allows for people of completely different backgrounds and cultures to have real relationships that they might not have even noticed anywhere else in the world.…
After completing my cultural assessment in class, I had to find a time to interview my mother, Kimberly. Luckily, this past week she has been out of school on spring break so it was easier for her to have the time to answer all the questions. I called her Tuesday March 29th around two o’clock in the afternoon. She was just finishing mopping the kitchen floor and was sitting down to eat. She told me that I could ask her the questions while she ate.…
Going through small private schools in a little town since I was in kindergarten has set me up for very few cultural experiences but my parents never wanted my siblings and I to grow up like this. When my family goes on vacation my mom always tries to fully submerge us in the culture around us. For example, a few years ago, my family and I went on a vacation in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico. We stayed in a nice resort and it was never necessary to leave the property if you didn’t want to. Most people never did.…
When I first learned of this assignment my first thought was to interview my mom. She is the one person in my life I am closest to. Since we are only twenty three years apart, I thought it would be best to focus on her life up to the point where she decided to have kids. Though I knew most of what she told me it was still nice to just sit and talk about her life experiences. My mother was born to older parents and was the youngest of three children.…
My own cultural competency is built on a lifetime of international experiences. I grew up on the Dominican Republic, where I attended high school. Later, I was awarded a scholarship by the Cooperative Association of States for Scholarships (CASS) program to study Graphics Communications at Modesto Junior College (MJC), Modesto, CA. I was surrounded by cultures different from my own, I was encouraged to identify and value both the commonalities and differences of the human experience. As a student, exposure to diverse peoples was instrumental in shaping my worldview and values.…
My cultural background is probably one of the most important things to me. My family came to the United States from Ludwigshafen, Germany decades ago, and although I personally have never travelled out of the country, I've always cherished how in touch we are with our roots. Eating homemade Spritzgebäck every Christmas while waiting for Christkind to arrive, gathering around to hear Oma read the classic, albeit terrifying, children's stories from der Struwwelpeter, and dancing to polka music around my house are just a few of my favorite memories. My great-grandmother, who I call "Oma", is the main reason that I have such a huge interest in learning about my heritage. She has been through so much throughout her lifetime and I have immense gratitude for the opportunity to hear her stories firsthand.…
The person I choose to interview was my mother Consuelo Mendez. She is 42 years old, which puts her in the middle adulthood stage. She grew up in a Mexican household with a huge family. She has nine sisters and one brother. She was only able to attend school up until her sixth grade, since she had to go help my grandpa in the field.…
Cultural identity is being apart of a classification determined by ethnicity, religion, and social class, to just name a few. Through my upbringing, I have been mostly influenced by my family's nationality shaping who I am as a person today. Nationality has been revealed as an important aspect of my culture as I continue to grow, my Italian heritage, and my Irish heritage truly plays a role in my individuality. My Italian heritage plays an important role of my cultural identity.…
My cultural identity has been passed down for many generations. And it is the reason i do things a certain way. Like how i dress for special occasions like eid and ramadan they are two major holidays in my religion, and how i practice my religion, and how i behave towards others. First i would like to talk about how i dress for special occasions.…
Then my mother is also dedicated to her family by making sure that her siblings and parents are all right. My mother is the type of person who will still try to make sure her family is all right even if they are not on good terms. For instance, my mother and my grandmother got into an argument over what she can say to her children and they stopped talking for a while. Though they were not on good terms my mother still called her mother to make sure she was all right because they were still family at the end of the…