Comments | carnality: if y'all could answer these for me for my global studies class that would be cool.

carnality

if y'all could answer these for me for my global studies class that would be cool.

Sep 21, 2011 13:51

basically, i have to interview someone from a different cultural background than my own. sadly i only know honkys irl and i'm the only ethnic person THEY know so i have turned to the internet. it's okay if you identify as "white" because this is more about the culture your family comes from rather than how it's practiced now/how it is in america ( ( Read more... )

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HERE ARE THE QUESTIONS IF YOU WANT TO GO OVER THEM BEFORE YOU START carnality September 21 2011, 18:58:31 UTC

1 How do people greet each other-shake hands? Bow? Embrace? Kiss? Or other? How do they part?
2 What languages, and varieties of each language, are used in the community? By whom? When? Where? For what purposes?
3 On what occasions would you present or accept gifts? What gifts are considered appropriate? If flowers, what kind? (Some have special meanings.)
4 Are children usually present/participants in social gathers? Elderly members of the family? Women of the family?
5 Who is in a ‘family’? Who among these (or others) live in one house? What is the hierarchy of authority in a family?
6 What is the relative importance of an individual family member versus the family as a whole? What is the degree of solidarity, and in what domains?
7 In schools, are children segregated? If so, how-race? Class or caste? Sex? Religion? Grade level? Age?
8 Do most people read and write?
9 How are public sanitation, hygiene, and garbage dealt with?
10 What is normal dress of women? Of men? Does the color of dress have symbolic significance (e.g. ( ... )