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eheh... homework help? XD
Hello! I don't know if this is the place to ask, but for my "teaching diverse populations' class I need to interview someone of a different ethnic group than myself.
I really can't think of a place with more diversity than the internet, and Mene people are nice. XD So, if anyone has the time, would you please answer me these questions? Not to seem discriminatory, but since I'm Hispanic, I can't use answers from other Hispanic people. XD Sorry. Thank you to anyone who bothers! I appreciate it! ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ 1. Describe a typical thanksgiving dinner with your family (foods, rituals, etc.). 2. Would your family, parents react if you married someone from a different ethnic group, religion, or socio-economic background? 3. Have you ever experienced any discriminatory behaviors as a result of your ethnic background? 4. Describe the ethnic makeup of your neighborhood and the schools you attended. 5. Why do you think schools and society focus on multicultural education and diversity? XDDD yeah. XD And if you could also tell me what ethnicity you are, that would be awesome. <3 STAFF NOTE: Please remember that if you add the spoonfeed questions to your post they must be quoted. |
I'm european (Dutch!) caucasian. I don't know if that's appropriate for your project, but hey. I'll give it a shot. Never hurt anyone for tryin'.
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My mother starts brining the turkeys as much as three days in advance. Basically, she soaks the turkey in a bath of wine, citrus fruits, and salt, in the fridge. And... yes, I said "turkeys". Plural. Depending on the size of the crew we're expecting, we do two, three, once, even four. My mother makes mashed potatoes, green beans, and we always make our own cranberry sauce. Everything is from scratch-- and most of it, we raised, ourselves. Quote:
As for socio-economic, well-- there's no way to go for us, than up! We are fortunate to have property, and we live off of it as much as we can. But our pocketbooks are frightfully light, and there's a lot of debt in the family. I suppose, yes, some day I might marry up, but I can't imagine my family would disagree with that. My father's father-- my grandfather-- on the other hand, responds poorly when I date people of other ethnicities. Since he lives with me, that's a problem. He's in his late 90's, now, and feels that honest "white" men shouldn't consort with "colored folks". His comments have bred some serious contempt, in the past. It's just better not to introduce him to my partners, in general. Quote:
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There are almost no persons of ethnicity, here. There are two families of African descent who have settled here in the last five years, and one mixed-marriage Korean/Caucasian couple. That's it. Quote:
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1. Where we have Thanksgiving rotates between my parents' house, my oldest sister's house, and my middle sister's house. We always have turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, pumpkin pie, green beans, sweet potatoes, and green beans. My parents always cut the turkey. 2. My parents have never said they would react differently if I married someone of a different ethnic group. However, my mother treats my Hispanic brother-in-law differently. She tends to ignore him without meaning to. I'm not sure if this is an ethnic problem or...just due to how she doesn't get along with him. For religion, I'm an atheist, but I was raised Catholic, as were my sisters. They were both married outside of the church to non-Catholics. My parents expect me not to marry a Catholic by now. I think they'd be more surprised if I did. My parents wouldn't react any differently if I married someone of a different socio-economic background. My oldest sister "married down", and my middle sister "married up", so I don't think it would matter. If I married someone of a "lower" class, they might worry about my ability to support future children, but that's it. 3. Even though I'm Caucasian, I have. I attended a school where the majority of students were Asian and Indian. They tended to group together and exclude me and the other Caucasians from conversations. I was also told by an Indian that my singing was inferior because I was singing in English. 4. My neighborhood is diverse. On my street, we have Caucasians, African Americans, and Hispanics that I know of. My school is also ethnically diverse. I live in San Antonio, Texas, which has more than a million people. The last college I went to had Caucasians, African Americans, Africans, Asians, Hispanics, Mexicans, Indians, and I'm sure a multitude of others. 5. I think schools and society focus on multicultural education and diversity as an attempt to promote understanding. The more you understand about a culture, the less likely you are to stereotype, I suppose. It's so people can appreciate the differences between cultures along with the similarities they have in common. Did...I get everything? I hope this was helpful! Let me know if there's something I missed. |
This one seems like fun. So I'm gladly up for it. And I'm Swedish. So I live in Sweden, obviously. XD (Sweden is in Europe. Scandinavia, or Middle Earth as it was called once too) Quote:
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But on other hand, if it would be some one from Iraq or Iran or something, they would both flip out on me, most likely. But I would guess it's mostly up to me, and who I like. But looking as it is today, I most likely never will be in a relationship or marriage. If you ask me. Love stinks and doesn't bring anything but pain. So I avoid love at all cost. But I hope that answers that question anyhow. Quote:
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Hope any of that help. I'm not really good at answering such questions. Hahaha. |
I guess I would be the first Asian to answer these questions :) I'm Chinese 100% but from Malaysia where the main races here are Malay, Chinese and Indians
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As for religion, its also quite tough... I'm a Buddhist my law and in my identification card but Atheist by my own belief. My family members are of many different religions but my grand dad didn't take it so well when my cousin converted into Islam since he is quite a firm believer of Buddhism. Socio-economic background, really doesn't bother anyone in my family for some reason ^^" Quote:
Well, it has been quite sad that in school the country would usually make ways for 'bumiputeras' basically Malay and the native tribe people and they would earn special privileges. The rest of the races though we qualify for certain classes with better grades would be pushed to the lower classes :( Quote:
As for my school, its about the same but there are more Chinese and in every grade of 200 people, there are possible only about 10 Indians, 50 Chinese and the rest would usually be Malay. Very few are foreigners... Quote:
I hope that helps ^^ I love answering questions like these :) |
OK, I'm of Northern European/ English/German ethnicity.
Which makes makes me a pale pink/tan/peach "white" person. 1) For thanksgiving, I tend to go to potlucks and we have a variety of dishes. Some traditional, some not. There really isn't a set type of thanksgiving dish at these events, unless you count some tofurkey. When I was a child before I went vegetarian, we had the usual baked dead turkey. 2) I know ethnicity would be a non issue. Which is good because I seek a person according to what's in their soul, not the vessel that holds their soul. Not sure about the other two. I think if I came home with some uber religious freak, they'd be curious about why. We are Unitarians. I know my parents would have no patience for some spoiled rich person. So they'd get a wake up call early with my family. Other then that, I assume they wouldn't care. 3) I think it's possible. I know certain "minority" groups were favored since I worked in college admin before and it did occur to me. My father was disciriminated against for being of European ethnicity.They let him go as a teacher so they could hire a "minority" person instead. I always thought this was very wrong. 3) There are a lot of people of European ethnicty and people of Asian ethncity in this area. 4) First it was mostly European ethnicity and then later many Asians. I think the Asian population is further north of us mostly. 5) I assume to bridge conflicts and make people aware of the issues. |
Well, I'm Caucasian, but I grew up in a small French town therefore my family's very interesting about certain things.
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But ... Christmas on the other hand! Christmas with my family: It's very typical. Each year we choose someone's house to have the family get-together at. There's over 50 of us, therefore it's been at my dad's house for the last two years. All of the family flies in to come (unless their angry with one of us). And each year, my aunties get extremely drunk while the uncles laugh about it. There's a lot of drama at the family get-togethers, each one of us have our story. Ma Tante Julie hates my mom, my sister and I. Uncle Richard hates my brother and Uncle Gilbert. Uncle Gilbert hates Uncle Richard, and therefore scammed him out of a huge sum of money. Ma Tante Collette hates my dad because she's crazy. Everyone hates Niki and Patrick, because they made out with each other in front of everyone ... they're cousins. Not to mention Niki is crazy. Ma tante Aline dissapeared after her husband died for a few months, and then we found out she was in Pheonix (the U.S.) and married to some guy out there. o__O Lots of drama. It's very interesting. I love the get-togethers! Very entertaining! Quote:
If he were native, my Dad wouldn't pay for the wedding, nor would he attend. The entire family would spread rumours about me, and I would be a complete outcast (I'm already somewhat of an outcast, for not being a farmer.) And during each get-together, they'd be making fun of me and my husband behind my back. If I married a black man, my dad wouldn't allow him on his fields. (which happened before. He doesn't allow black people on the fields because apparently they taint the crops. =__= ) And Uncle Richard, who we've nicknamed "Uncle Dick", would make fun of him at every oppurtunity. We have one black girl in our family, and Uncle Dick loves calling her "aunt Jemimah" and things like. If he was asian, I don't think my dad would really care. But I do think he'd be embarrassed. Hispanic? For some strange reason, my Dad loves hispanics, he thinks they're the hardest working people on the earth, although I do know that my dad would still be embarrassed that he's not French. Quote:
Everyone in my small town is Francophone (french as a first language), while I'm Anglophone (english as a first language). The attitude of the place was: "If you don't know french, then don't bother talking to us." I was very often treated like dirt by adults, teachers, and my dad made it extremely clear to me that my french is a humiliation to him and our whole family. Ironically, now that I live in the city, my spoken french is one of the best in the class, only topped by a Quebecois. Quote:
It's actually the Frenchest place in all of Canada (with the exception of the Quebecois province). The Queen visited us once, in order to congratulate us. (She has very good french.) In the city, there's almost no french kids in my school. There's 15 hundred kids, but I think there's only four of us that are actually genuinely French. There are a lot of international students (a lot!), a good friend of mine is from Japan, another from Brazil, and in my Japanese class, half the class is from Korea. But when it comes to the people studying in French Immersion (where all the classes are in French save English class and optional courses ... it's very difficult in comparison to normal classes), they're all very English. There are a few Filipinos, but the majority are Caucasian. Quote:
But a huge thing, may be that what separates Canada from the U.S is our diversity. I am always hearing German, Korean, Arabic, or African languages from international students when in the hallway. In Toronto there are more people that immigrated from different countries to Canada, than Canadians who were born in this country. Canada's going to turn into country full of hundreds of different types of diversity. You have to be prepared for it, and prepare the people for it. In my small town, there was no diversity. I remember there was a native boy who went to the school once, but he was treated like he was less than dirt. His family moved away very fast, which was very wise of them. That was the only diversity I ever saw. In that town, they strive so hard to keep their french heritage that they don't support diversity. If they had supported diversity, the town would have died out long ago. The only thing that keeps it alive is the french heritage. As horrible as it may sound, although I was bullied for being English, I believe that being unsupportive of diversity is the way the town needs to be. It's the only thing keeping Francophones in that area of Canada, it's be a dying bread otherwise. If you aren't french, and don't belong, then go somewhere where you do. That's what I did, and that's how life works sometimes. |
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Sounds interesting. Let's give it a shot. :)
I'm Canadian and Caucasian, for starters. Quote:
To specify, that would be my mother, my step-father, and if my brothers are able to book it off work, they come as well. Some years we will have other guests over as well and turn it into a sort of "party" but that's not as often. We usually eat either turkey, ham, or both [depending how many people there are]. My mom also makes stuffing, mashed potatoes, squash, and some sort of cranberry sauce thing that I'm not so fond of. During dinner, we each take a turn saying something we're grateful for and then chink our glasses. Oh, and we have party crackers, or whatever they're called. The cylindrical things that you pop open and they have silly party hats and whatnot in them. XD Quote:
They'd be very welcoming of them, so long as I was happy. Quote:
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[I live in a sub-urb, if that helps you picture it better.] My junior/middle school was predominantly white upper-middle class girls. [It was an all-girls private school. -__-;;] My high school was a mixture of white people of varying socio-economic standards and Asian people. Quote:
[Seriously, everyone gets offended so easily these days, I swear. XD] My nicer answer would probably be that it's so that everyone can understand each other better... If you know where so-and-so of another ethnic background is coming from, then it'll be easier to understand how they....er... function, I suppose. You can understand their decision process better and instead of being discriminatory and judging, you are understanding and just accept that that's just the way it is and leave it alone. I hope this helps! :angel: |
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