Interview With Mi Madre

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English Interview Questions


  1. What's your name?

  2. What’s today's date?

  3. What year were you born?

  4. Who are your immediate family?

  5. Who were your parents, grandparents, sisters?

  6. In what year did you emigrate from Paraguay?

  7. How did that trip happen?

  8. You left behind everything but your daughters, what was the driving force or motivation for you to drop everything you knew, and go on that journey?

  9. Would you say you suffered culture shock?

  10. How did breaking the language barrier, in learning English, help you?

  11. What is culture?

    1. Is it important to have it?

  12. What is race? In Paraguay? In the U.S?

    1. Historically?

  13. What has been your experience with race and racism?

  14. Since you first moved to the US, until now, how have your feelings and experiences with race and racism changed?

  15. What is ethnicity?

  16. In relation to these, how do you identify yourself?

  17. Do you still live or practice your culture? How?

  18. Do you feel that your sense of culture and ethnicity has evolved to include aspects of the American and the Paraguayan?

  19. What are the aspects of our culture that you want to last with your granddaughter and your daughters?



Spanish interview questions

  1. Cual es tu nombre?

  2. ¿Cuál es la fecha de hoy?

  3. ¿En qué año naciste?

  4. ¿Quiénes son tu familia inmediata?

  5. ¿Quiénes eran tus padres, abuelos, hermanas(os)?

  6. ¿En qué año emigraste de Paraguay?

  7. ¿Cómo sucedió ese viaje?

  8. Lo dejaste todo, excepto por tus hijas? Cuál fue la fuerza impulsora o motivación para que dejaras todo lo que conocías e hicieras ese viaje?

  9. ¿Dirías que sufriste un choque cultural? 

  10. En que manera te ayudó el haber roto la barrera del idioma, al aprender el Inglés?

  11. ¿Qué es la cultura? 

    1. Es importante tenerla?

  12. Que es la raza? En Paraguay? ¿En los Estados Unidos?

    1. Historicamente?

  13. ¿Cuál ha sido tu experiencia con la raza y el racismo?

  14. Desde que te mudaste por primera vez a los EE. UU., hasta ahora, ¿cómo han cambiado tus sentimientos y experiencias con la raza y el racismo?

  15. Que es etnicidad?

  16. En relación con estos, ¿cómo te identificas? 

  17. ¿Todavía vivís tu cultura? ¿Cómo?

  18. Sentís que tu sentido de cultura y etnicidad propia ha evolucionado para incluir aspectos de lo Estadounidense y lo Paraguayo?

  19. ¿Cuáles son los aspectos de nuestra cultura que quisieras que duren con tu nieta y tus hijas?

Comments

  1. UnknownOctober 13, 2020 at 8:34 PM

    What did your mother think of the interview afterwards?

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