The document provides an overview of cultural aspects related to food, genes, social organization, communication, time orientation, and health care beliefs and practices for several ethnic groups. It compares these elements across groups including Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Arabian, Black, and Anglo-American cultures. The summary highlights differences and commonalities in diet, health risks, family structures, communication styles, perspectives on time, and approaches to health and medicine.
The document provides an overview of cultural aspects related to food, genes, social organization, communication, time orientation, and health care beliefs and practices for several ethnic groups. It compares these elements across groups including Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Arabian, Black, and Anglo-American cultures. The summary highlights differences and commonalities in diet, health risks, family structures, communication styles, perspectives on time, and approaches to health and medicine.
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The document provides an overview of cultural aspects related to food, genes, social organization, communication, time orientation, and health care beliefs and practices for several ethnic groups. It compares these elements across groups including Filipino, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Arabian, Black, and Anglo-American cultures. The summary highlights differences and commonalities in diet, health risks, family structures, communication styles, perspectives on time, and approaches to health and medicine.
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FOOD GENES SOCIAL COMMUNICATION & TIME HEALTH CARE BELIEFS
ORGANIZATION SPACE ORIENTATION AND PRACTICES FILIPINO Rice; Meat, Sensitive to Nuclear + Tagalog, English; Past-oriented; Magico-religious; seafood; adverse extended; Silence, Expressive Eyes; Future- intimate family largely 3 meals a day effects of patriarchal; Rural folks are more oriented; Poor influence decisions; with snacks; alcohol; women enjoy conservative when it observers of Doctor as major decision form of Lactose societal status; comes to showing punctuality maker; Western socialization intolerant utang na loob, affection; shy, medicine, integrated bayanihan nonagrressive, use of with alternative health words to show respect practitioners JAPANESE Rice, gohan; Lactose Nuclear; Love Japanese, English; man Past, present Concepts of yin/yang, Herbs for Intolerance, not requisite for levels of formality, and future cleanliness, purity, medicinal CVA due to marriage, bowing, handshake, oriented spiritual devotion, bathe purposes; Sodium children main laughter, avoid direct in neck-deep water, eating content of concern of eye contact, don’t like exposure to beauty of balancing foods food; parents; self- touching, avoid nature; massage, (yin/yang); cancer; expression not expansive gestures, reflexology, reiki, herbal Used ritually in asthma valued; girls unusual facial medicine, macrobiotic celebrations take care of expressions, whole diet boys, geishas hand when pointing, silence, grunting, avoid PDA CHINESE Yin/yang of Thalassemia Extended Mandarin; may sound Adjusts to the Fatalism, interplay of food; grains, , Lactose family, strong loud, silence, smile, present; yin/yang; feng shui, vegetables, Intolerance, filial tendency; handshake, reseved focuses on colors and numbers; fruit and meat; Hantavirus, Male gestures; avoid completion of Acupuncture, cupping, regional cuisine Spontaneou dominance, disagreeing, touching, the present herbology, qi jong s traditional role PDA, direct eye contact; and often hypoglycem of women, ME whole hand when implements ia, HPN, generation pointing, ask how to one activity at food- address them a time associated deficiencies, TB, HepatitisB INDIAN Vegetarian, Thalassemia Extended; Men Hindi, English; head & Past, present Total harmony with prohibits beef; , G6PD, dominant, hand gestures, silence, and future nature, balance of Rice, bread; Lactose authoritative, eye contact, avoid PDA oriented elements; ayurveda., combination of intolerance; Women and touching; pancharma, yoga flavors; susceptible passive; Case Right hand for to system eating waterborne and food diseases, mental illness MEXICAN Rice; spicy, rich Vit A Family, blended Spanish; loud, Present Hot-cold theory, in color, deficiency, communal seemingly disorganized, oriented, supernatural causes, texture and anemia, families, “small talk”, touching, relaxed stress, envy; folk flavor; form of Lactose patriarchal; handshake, smile, avoid concept of practitioners, health care socialization intolerance, Machismo eye contact with older time professionals alcoholism, complex; social people, more formal drug status highly titles to non-family addiction, valued members; address with Cardiac respect and diseases, personalismo, direct DM questions to dominant member of the group ARABIAN Kosher meat; G6PD, sickle Extended; Men Arabic, behave Predestination; seek care for actual prohibits alcohol, cell anemia, dominant role, conservatively, steady punctual; symptoms; birth rites, drug abuse, fish without scales, thalassemia, women satisfy eye contact, avoid with circumcision, life meat Cardiac husbands women, acceptable to interventions, euthanasia disease, needs, care of touch if of same sex, do prohibited, synthetic Diabetes, children; sons not compliment beauty human insulin; burial sedentary protect sisters, of women to host ASAP, completely cover lifestyle daughters body, feet towards source of Mecca, family of same emotional sex should wash dead support; body, corpse not left childbearing alone, notify nearest women wear Islamic center to pray hijab; talaq is and read from the practiced, Qu’ran dowry in marriage BLACKS High in fat, less Sickle Cell Large, extended Black English, Pidgin, Past, future Pain; voodoo, home fiber, fewer anemia, family Gullah; openly express oriented; remedies fruits and HPN, networks; many feeling to SO, expressive punctual veggies; soul Cancer, single parent gestures, humor, avoid food Lactose households, direct eye contact, intolerance, stong church touch used freely, Obesity, affiliations, comfortable with close Pica social personal space Diabetes, organizations STDs ANGLO- Steak, Thalassemia Nuclear; doing, English, spoken with Time is gold, Germs cause disease, AMERICAN potatoes, , Cardiac independent accent; direct, informal, future Aggressive approach on veggies, salad, disease, equality of ask many questions, oriented, value illness, trend towards deserts; breast CA, sexes, small talk; moderate personal goals; alternative medicine; packaged diabetes materialistic, voice, few gestures, may vary with drug culture foods, fully youth & beauty, direct eye contact, SES prepared meals reliance on handshake, PDA is outside of facts, generous, common; often seek to home helpful increase space, require more personal space ITALIAN Fruits, veggies, Mediterran Extended; Italian; passionate when Past, present Engage in health garlic, pasta, ean fever, Father bread- speaking, raised and future promotion, insurance; olive oil; pasta, G6PD, HPN winner, Mother volume, speaking at the oriented traditional beliefs, sausages queen, same time; willingness collaboration of doctors economic to share feelings & with shamans and decisions; sons thoughts; touching herbalists live at home often seen; like contact until marriage; that make them feel value family ties they belong JEWISH Kashrut; meat Bloom Family; Men English, Hebrew, Past, present Jewish law; curcumcsion and milk never syndrome, breadwinner; Yiddish; use of humor, and future on 8th by a mohel, only mixed, do not breast and Women keeps avoid touching of oriented; life-saving procedures bring food to ovarian CA, the home, women other than wife punctual are done on Sabbath Jewish homes cystic Children most nor look directly fibrosis, valued Fanconi treasure; bar anemia, mitzvah Tay-Sachs