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My cultural values & identity
What is culture?
According to Hofstede, Hofstede, and Minko, Culture can manifest in many ways. "Symbols, heroes, rituals, and values, describe the manifestation of culture and where differences between them can be found."
Changes in my cultural identity since moving to the USA
I was not conscious of how bad Latinos have been excluded and discriminated in the US and I felt very uncomfortable at the beginning
Example: El Paso attacl against Latinos, Lulu Garcia said that Latinos’ information is “walled of”
I passed through
"culture shock"
(Irwin) phases:
First: I was very excited
Second: accomodating umconfortable
Third: Adjustment
I understand the word
stereotype
more than never and I realized how constantly people are creating stereotypes
As Vahabzadeh said: stereotype is a cycle where people only judge and divide
I realized the power that
pronouns
and
words
have; as Meier states regarding
inclusive language
"Learn about why pronouns matter: don’t be afraid of asking someone’s gender, so to be clear how they prefer to be called (they, she, he, zem them, etc)"
BASIC ELEMENTS
Values:
Empathic
Loyalty
Patriotism
Competition
Practices
:
Pray in family before the meals
Go to church every Sunday
Say "hello" and "good bye" when you go to a place
Greet everyone with a kiss on the cheek or shake hands
Symbols
:
The flag
National anthem
National Emblem
Molas
Heroes
:
Cristobal Colon
Omar Torrijos
Pope Francisco
Food:
arroz con pollo (rice with chicken)
sancocho
Tamales
INTERSECTIONALITY
My intersectionality:
Woman
Latina
White
Heterosexual
What is intersectionality?
According to Hopkins (2018) intersectionality is "The way of understanding social relations by examining intersecting forms of discrimination"
When "sexism, racism and ableism combined → transform the experience of oppression"
Example from Crenshaw's TedTalk:
Emma DeGraffenreid:
-African American Woman who applied for a job and she was not hired. African americans that were hired where all
men
. The women that were hired were all
white
.
Result = Double discrimination
Subcultures from my culture
Natives
Jewish
Catholics
Jewish & Catholics:
high, middle, low class
Low context culture
For me, my culture is a
"low-context culture"
.
According to Meyer (2014) Low context cultures:
"communication is precise, simple, explicit and clear. Messages are understood at face value. Repetition is for clarification, as is putting messages in writing."
"people express their ideas by giving specific details, and being direct. They want the listener to understand clearly what they are saying."
Characteristics everyone see
- Language:Spanish
-
Gender
- Age
- Personality
- Appearance
- Cloth
- Attitude
- Physical characteristics (brown hair, white skin color, wight, height)
My Culture-bound & communication styles
Non-verbal communication
: the way we communicate with each other without saying something directly
Examples:
Gestures
: saying "yes" or "no" using the hands or the head
Body movement
s: we hug each other to show love & we jump when we are happy
Facial expressions
: sad face, happy face, eye contact, angry face
Verbal communication:
the way we communicate through specific words or phrases
Examples:
Conversations between friends
: screaming, laughing, giving opinions
Saying specific phrases
: say
"good morning
" to the professors when the teacher enters to the classroom. Say "
toy cabriada"
when you are angry. Another common phrase in my culture is "
man que xopa
" which is another way to say hello (in my country)
Written phrases
: texts of love, memes, emails, books..
My Culture-bound Behavior can be explained as:
We are used to screaming and talking a lot with everyone. Most people in my culture are used to have long conversations; we like to interact a lot with each other. Most people in my culture like to talk a lot and we are also very expressive, we used exaggerated (hyperboles) phrases to express ourselves such as "I am dying with this hot weather". One perfect example for one of these characteristics is the long conversation; when I was a child and I accompanied my mom to the supermarket, my mom kept talking to the cashier for a long time without even knowing her (every time, different cashier). It is very common to talk a lot in my country.
Dominant groups
Politicians
Rich people
Telecommunication companies
Business Men
Emotional Expressive
: means to be expressive during negotiation. Some cultures use this skill to have better interaction with other negotiators through their emotions, laugh, or showing trust and friendly relationships. (Hall, 2016)
