Students with other Heritages
Posted by alicemercer on March 1, 2007
1. Where does your cultural group come from? Please provide a link to an online map here.
Taylor:My cultural group is Cambodian.
Erika: My cultural group comes from Japan. Here is a map of Japan
2. What language or dialect does your cultural group speak?
Taylor:My language is Cambodian.
Erika: My language is Japanese.
3. What foods are parts of your cultural group?
Taylor:The food we eat is rice, crab, and crawdad.
Erika: The food we eat is seafood, rice, seaweed.
4. What are the spiritual or religious practices in the group? Is this an important part of the group’s identity?
Taylor:We are Buddtist.
Erika: We are Buddist.
5. How are families organized? (Nuclear – parents and children, Extended -grandparents, parents, and children, clan – a group of nuclear families related to each other)
Taylor:We live in different houses.
Erika: Every body lives in one house.
6. What value does education have in the culture, are people expected to finish High School and go to college, or is working more important than finishing school?
Taylor:We are expected to finish college.
Erika: They are expected to finish college.7. Who is more important, older people, or young people?
Taylor:The older people are more important.
Erika: The older people are more important.
8. Who is respected most in the community?
Taylor:The most respected person is the older people.
Erika: The emperor and emperess.
