Our cultural group is from Mexico.  Map of Mexico . One of the group member’s family is from  Sinaloa.

All of us speak English.  One of us speaks only English, but the rest of us speak Spanish too.

Our foods are tortillas, beans, rice, salsa, carne asada, tamles, posole, enchiladas, and birria. Andrea’s family eat rice, shrimp.

Most of  the people in our group are Catholic and one is a Jehovah’s Wittness.

Most of us have nuclear families, but one of us has an extended family. 

Some of us are expected to get a college degree, but for some of us going to work was more important. We are expected to  finish High School.

Most of us thougth the most important people are the elderly or adults, but one group thought both or the younger people were more important.

The elders are respected most beacause they are very old and they are our grandparents mom, uncles or adults. They are respected for their wisdom and experience. One group thought the people in charge in the community were respected. Another thought, the famous Mexican people were.

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. 

We come from America, most of our ancestors came from Europe. We all speak English.

We eat lots of food like pizza, salad, bacon, fruit and veggies. Turkey is our holiday food but we eat food from other cultures, like tamales too.

In our group only one person goes to church. The rest of us do not go to church at all.

Most of us live in a nuclear family, but one member sometimes has extended relatives living with her family.

Our families value our education because they expect us to go to college.

Our families all respect old and young people equally.  We respect our parents and our parents respect their parents.

Our culture is African American and comes from Africa.

A map of Africa

Our cultural group speaks English. The food our culture ate traditionally is greens, cornbread, chicken, and macaroni and cheese. Now we eat a lot junk food. 

Our spitritual practices are from the Christian Church, but some of us do not go to church.

Our famlies are organized by parents and their children (nuclear.)

In our culture we finish high school and some of us are expected to finish college.

Older peple are important because you couldn’t do anything without them. The adults are respected the most because they get respect from the kids. We also respect Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for standing up for African Americans  rights.

Our cultural group comes from Laos, but most of our families were in refugee camps in Thailand before we came here. Most of our families speak Hmong, one group member is Mien, which is another cultural group in Laos. We all speak English.

Our foods are noodles, and egg roll, but they are different than American and Chinese noodles and egg roll. Papaya and fruit. We celebrate lunar new year. Sometimes Hmong people have string ceremonies where we kill two chickens or a pig, to bring good spirits back when you are sick. They ring bells, and gongs. They tie strings around the persons wrist. The strings red or white or both. Strings are for good luck. We put white strings beside us, to keep away bad ghost.

Some of the students in this group had extended family living togehter, but most were nuclear, with only parents and children.
Finishing High school and going to college is more important, because adults want them to have good jobs.

Older people are more important, because young people has to take carre of them when we grow up.

Please make a comment by clicking on Comments below.