I'm doing a project for my Hospitality Management class. I need to interview someone with a Venezuelan culture. Can someone help me?
Thanks!
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These are the questions:
- Background Information:
What is your ethnic background?
Did your family immigrate to the Unites States?
If yes, how many generations ago?
Do you have a religious affiliation?
If yes, what is it?
- Direct Questions:
What foods are indicative of your culture? What foods items are needed to make a meal for you?
How many meals do you eat every day? Do you snack?
Who usually shares the meals?
Who prepares the meals?
Where is food normally consumed?
How is food normally consumed?
How do your food habits differ from your family norms? In what significant ways do they differ?
What are symbolic meanings of food known to your culture?
Do you have any food ‘taboos'?
What are the major holidays you and your family celebrate each year?
What special foods are served for these holidays?
Do you fast? If yes, when? What, if any, foods are avoided and/why?
What foods (if any) do you eat to improve strength, endurance, and/or vitality?
What foods do you avoid to prevent illness or disease?
What foods do you eat to stay healthy?
What foods did your mother (or caregiver) feed you when you were sick?
What foods do you desire now when you are sick?
What foods do you eat to cure illnesses or disease?
What (if any) home, popular, or traditional therapies involving food, herbs, and/or vitamins and minerals do you utilize?
Why? Or why not?
What outside influences impact your consumption of your cultural foods?
What outside influences impact your beliefs of therapeutic uses of food?
How has the American culture influenced your cultural habits and traditions?
How do you feel your cultural habits and traditions have influenced American culture?
Someone from Venezuela or Venezuela decedent?
- Background Information:
What is your ethnic background?
Daugther of spanich inmigrants
Did your family immigrate to the Unites States?
Just one, most of the others still in Vzla
If yes, how many generations ago?
not even one generation ago
Do you have a religious affiliation?
Yes,
If yes, what is it?
Catholic
- Direct Questions:
What foods are indicative of your culture? What foods items are needed to make a meal for you? Arepa, cachapas, sopas con vegetales vzlanos
How many meals do you eat every day? Do you snack?
At least 3
Who usually shares the meals?
family
Who prepares the meals?
Mom
Where is food normally consumed?
Kitchen table
How is food normally consumed?
Sure with fork-Knife-spoon and dish
How do your food habits differ from your family norms? In what significant ways do they differ?
Do not differ
What are symbolic meanings of food known to your culture?
Share with family or family moments
Do you have any food ‘taboos'?
Nop,
What are the major holidays you and your family celebrate each year?
Christmas, Holly weeek, carnival
What special foods are served for these holidays?
In my house same food as always
Do you fast? If yes, when? What, if any, foods are avoided and/why?
No
What foods (if any) do you eat to improve strength, endurance, and/or vitality?
I just try to eat balanced meals
What foods do you avoid to prevent illness or disease?
So greasy ones
What foods do you eat to stay healthy?
vegetables
What foods did your mother (or caregiver) feed you when you were sick?
Chicken soup sure
What foods do you desire now when you are sick?
Anything somebody else cook for me.
What foods do you eat to cure illnesses or disease?
Disease normally cured with medicines
What (if any) home, popular, or traditional therapies involving food, herbs, and/or vitamins and minerals do you utilize?
none
Why? Or why not?
we do not have any traditional therapies
What outside influences impact your consumption of your cultural foods?
I just eat what I like
What outside influences impact your beliefs of therapeutic uses of food?
None
How has the American culture influenced your cultural habits and traditions?
I just try to adjust but no major changes
How do you feel your cultural habits and traditions have influenced American culture?
Not sure about it, you might ask an american close to me.
