Cultural Awareness Hispanic

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Cultural AwarenessHispanic Vietnamese Culture

• Bridging Differences

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Interpreter Language Services

• Spanish Interpreters and Translators
• Vietnamese Interpreters and Translators

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Vietnamese Culture Customs

• People
• Language
• Family
• Child Care and Rearing
• Celebration, Commemorations
• None Verbal Patterns Meaning
• Communication Styles
• Health Care

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People

• List Family name first, then middle, first name
  last
• More than a million in Europe, North America,
  Australia
• Primary Regions
• North
• Central
• South
• Migration
• First wave, 1975
• Second wave, 1978
• Third wave, 1992

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Language

• Vietnamese
• Spoken language
• Written (Alexandre de Rhodes)
• People from different regions different accents
• Tendency to keep problems private, avoid asking
  for help until too late

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Family

• Most Important Unit
• Several Generations live together
• Elders taken care in the home
• Family Honor
• Older Siblings responsible
• Parent expect to see respect in children

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Child Caring Rearing

• Mother or Mother-in-law is the principal person
  who assist, observe and apply rules

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Pre,Post-natal rules

• Pre-natal Rules
• Walk Slowly
• Not to sleep too much
• Avoid funerals, horror stories. . .
• Post-natal Rules
• No bath or shower
• Avoid wind
• Keep warm for at least three months

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Celebrations Commemorations

• Full Month after birth
• First birthday
• Death Anniversary
• Full moon celebration
• Lunar New Year

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Nonverbal Patterns

• Nodding
• Shaking ones hand
• Touching childs head
• Winking
• Frowning
• Pouting

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Communication Styles

• Suppress Hostility
• Smiling is a common social response to mark a
  variety of reactions
• A yes answer may only indicate attention from
  listener

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Health Care

• Self-Medication
• Mental illness is considered shameful
• Greatest stress for elders arise from lack of
  English and Economic dependency
• A common practice done by rubbing back, chest,
  neck with menthol oil can be mistaken by abuse
• Women prefer female providers

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Hispanic Culture

• Language
• Family
• Health
• Major Causes of Illness
• Treatments

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Objective

• To become more sensitive to the crucial fact that
  multiple factors underlie patients behaviors.
  Patients may well perceive and understand health
  and illness from quite a different perspective
  than that of a healthcare provider

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Language Spanish

• Alternatives name
• Spoken in 43 countries
• Distinct Accents Dialects
• Originated VI Century BC

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Family

• Base of Society
• Older Siblings take care of younger children
• Man head of household
• School not affordable

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Health

• Pure Luck
• Reward for good behavior
• Punishment meted out for wrongdoing
• Lack of PainHealth

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Major Causes of Illness

• Bodys Imbalance
• Hot and Cold or Dry or Wet
• Dislocation of Body Part
• Empacho, Sobadora, Caida de Mollera
• Magic or Supernatural
• Embrujado, Mal de Ojo, Susto
• Envidia--Envy
• Succeed is to fail

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Treatments

• Religious Rituals
• Making Promises
• Visiting shrines, religious pilgrimages
• Offering prayers
• Curandero
• Folk healer
• Herbs,oils, perfumes, massages, limpias,
  confession

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Awareness

• Yourself
• Explore own identity
• Listen
• Body language
• Facial expressions
• Medical Culture
• Scientific
• Medical View Point

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Thank you