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You may select questions from this list to guide your interview, as well as add your own.

Question 1. What is your history? What is your home of origin? Why did you/your family settle there?

Question 2. Do you work and what type of work do you do?

Question 3. What are some of your family customs and roles of members within your family? What isyour role in your family? Does birth order play a role in your family position or custom?

Question 4. How closely do you identify with and affiliate with your culture? How assimilated intothe mainstream culture are members of your family and how well is that accepted by therest of the family?

Question 5. What are the gender roles in your culture? And in your family?

Question 6. What religious or spiritual beliefs are influential in your culture and for your family?

Question 7. What are your family beliefs about around child rearing and discipline?

Question 8. What would be the characteristics and practices of people who are considered to beexcellent parents in your culture?

Question 9. What are the power structures in your family? Is age a factor in who has power? How aredecisions made at the family and community level?

Question 10. Who holds positions of formal power in your culture? Who are the most powerfulinformal leaders in your community? Who held positions of power in the past?

Question 11. What is your concept of health? What are customary health practices and beliefs? Who isresponsible for and influences health care? Do you use home or folk remedies, a healer,shaman or some other traditional or spiritual healer?

Question 12. What is your concept of time? Is this the same as others in your culture?

Question 13. What is your concept of personal space? What is considered appropriate touch betweenpeople of various relationships? (Consider how people greet each other when they arefirst introduced, when they greet friends, when they greet relatives)

Question 14. How can you communicate effectively in your culture? Consider the meaning of tone ofvoice, gestures, eye-contact, overall body language, terminology used to describe health,and face-saving behaviors.5

Question 15. Identify and verify customs, beliefs, and practices that might be misinterpreted byestablished institutions within your community e.g. schools, law enforcement, socialservices, health care providers (this includes such beliefs around certain body parts suchas the head, male and female circumcision, cutting or puncturing the skin, transfusions,autopsies etc.