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How you present yourself to others is an important part of being a social worker. Being able to present yourself in an open, caring, and professional manner helps with building rapport and influences your clients’ willingness to share their experiences. You also must be skilled at interacting with clients who are different from you.

 

Interviewing skills are also very important, as you have seen, and social workers must be mindful of how to conduct an interview in a culturally competent and culturally sensitive manner.

 

In this Assignment, you have an opportunity to practice your engagement and assessment skills. You conduct an interview with an individual from a different culture than your own to learn their perspective about culture and gender. The goal is for you to explore the cultural norms within that ethnic or cultural group.

 

To prepare:

 

  •  You create a presentation about the interview.
  •  Your video should be 4–5 minutes but no more than 6 minutes.

 

 

 

Submit a recorded PowerPoint (PPT) presentation about your interview with a person from a different culture than your own. Your PowerPoint presentation should include 8–10 slides and should be 4–5 minutes in recorded length.

 

In the PPT presentation, address the following:

 

  • Identify basic background information of the interviewee.
  • Provide a summary of what you learned about the individual when conducting this interview.
  • Analyze the individual’s cultural experience at the:
    • Micro level
    • Mezzo level
    • Macro level
      • Support your analysis at each level with scholarly resources.
  • Describe your reaction to this activity.
  • Reflect on these reactions and explain why you believe you may have experienced these thoughts and feelings.
  • Describe what you learned and explain how you can apply what you learned to the social work profession.

 

 

 

Interview Presentation: Questions

 

 

To prepare:

· Identify an interview subject with a different cultural background than you. Terry Burciaga aka Teresita de Jesus Burciaga Born in El Paso Texas of Mexican Heritage

· Ask your interview subject the questions below. Be sure to record the interview and/or take good notes.

 

During the interview, ask the individual the following interview questions:

 

· Have you ever lived or visited outside of the United States? If so, where? Describe the experience.

Lived in El Paso all my life but because of my work I travel to many countries

Every three months i visited different countries

Nicaragua: One of my favorites. The people are amazing. They love to show you all of their culture, food, music and just the beauty of the country is amazing. Aside from all the political struggles, everyone still live pretty happy.

Dubai: A very rich country. Rich monetary!! Clean and so disaplined. Such a structured country. They don’t disrespect anybody. The culture is beautiful. Food amazing!!

Sarajevo: I can remember when I was young that this country was in war and so many problems. Now when I visited, its rich in culture and divertsity. Food amazing and so green!

 

· What do you identify as your culture? Mexican

· What are the most important values and beliefs of your family and community? As family, Mexican culture is big, we have so much. From the religious values especially Catholics, to the holidays that are celebrated. Holidays we celebrate very big, nothing is ever small.

· What are the important events, traditions, celebrations, and practices in your family or community? Dia de los Muertos, Christmas but latino way is very different with Posadas, 16th of September, Dia de la Madre (mothers day), Dia del Nino (celebrating children), Dia de los Reyes Magos (this would be the actual day to receive your gifts).

· How does your family or community define gender roles?

We as a family we define as how we were. I am a female, my sister define as female, and so does my other sister. My daughter defines herself as a female. But as a culture in Mexican American culture, it was not accepted up until lately.

· How do you identify your:

· Race – White but I consider myself brown

· Ethnicity – Latina

· National origin – American

· Color – Tanish (not white and not to dark)n

· Sex – female

· Sexual orientation- Prefer men

· Gender identity or expression – I’m female

· Age- 51

· Marital status – Divorced

· Political belief – Hate politics – especially now

· Religion – Well was raised very traditional Catholic, don’t practice much, but do have strong beliefs

· Immigration status – American

· Disability status – not yet – still working for my social security

· How well do you fit within your family or community based on these other identities you hold? El Paso is a very accepting community. We are diverse in some aspects. It is a still a growing city.

· How do you think others outside your community view your culture? Many love El Paso. It’s a very strong community.

· Have you experienced prejudice or discrimination? Please describe. I have experienced it, not too much in El Paso but in other cities in the great USA I have. It was at a restaurant, in the middle of Texas, and basically they were very rude and didn’t want to attend us. I was outraged thinking that we still have such closed minded people.