Reflection About Enculturation

Enculturation
In the summer of 2016, I met one of my informant’s daughters, a 23 years old lady; we both took the anatomy class together. And a little after I met my informant’s eldest daughter; a 28 years old lady who is also studying in Woodland Community College. All three of us have had very good chemistry and we are forming a beautiful friendship. They are of African American descent, one day I realized that they spoke and understood Spanish, which made me very curious. I asked them why they are fluent in Spanish and they told me that their mother is from Guatemala. Later I learn that her mother was graduated from UC Davis with a major in Biological Science, for me that lady sounded like someone very intelligent, very interesting,

Regarding food, I am not very traditional since when I lived at home I never learned to cook and nowadays that I live in US; I have tried many foods of different cultures. So I cook very mixed food between American, Italian, Latin, etc. But what I keep in practice is to eat at home; I never really liked the concept of "fast food." Regarding education, it is difficult to compare for me because this was already many years ago, when I studied in my country, I technologically speaking I remember that we were very backward compared to the United States. Also our educational system is much stricter than here, if a student does not have the required grades, the student can repeat many times the same

As soon as we started the interview I realized that my informant was very honest. While conducting the interview I recognized that the order of my questions was not the most organized, but she was very cooperative and knew how to handle the situation very well, even though we were going from one side to the other. I think bringing the biscuit pie works great for breaking the tension between us. She seemed fascinated with the idea of being eating and answering my questions at the same time. Gradually we entered in confidence and she was very fluent in her answers, although suddenly she left a little of the subject, discretely I tried to keep her in truck. I found it very interesting that despite the age difference we are very similar. Being so similar helped a lot to the conversation flowed so positively, I know that if it had not been that way, it would have cost me a little more work. However, the only point in which she did not coincide with one hundred percent with her was when I mention that she does not teach her daughters to respect the elderly people because of mistrust; in my case my parents taught me that I always have to respect older people no matter what. This disagreement was minimal so it was not the big thing, and did not bother or make me feel uncomfortable. I noticed that my informant likewise felt comfortable