Afghans And Afghan Americans Flashcards
National languages
Dari, a dialect of persian
Pashto
both very different so you will need a different interpreter for each
may speak english but probably cant read it
Tone
Women: speak loudly
Men: speak in soft tones
Personal information
Reluctant to share personal and family issues
Greetings
People who are not family het a head nod or handshake
Eye contact
Avoid sustaining eye contact with people of opposite gender
Space
Live close together with extended family
Intimate with their distance with family in convo
Use to thick walls so places with thin walls their reluctant to be heard
Trust
Family is core
Friendships develop slow due to distrust
Quite traditional family
Wife stay at home and cook and clean
father head of house
Cosmopolitan
Women enjoy more freedom
Religion
84% muslim sunni branch
Muslim shi’a 15%
Past orientation
Tradition and family
Present orientation
Social interactions
Future orientation
Hard work and commitment to children’s education
Sleep patterns
Associated with PTSD (night terrors)
Loci of control
External and internal
Concept of health and illness
Natural and supernatural
Folk tradition and western treatments
Both valued and used at the same time
Prayers and verses of qur’an
Used for specific illnesses
Mild natural illnesses
Treated with only home remedies and dietary means
If severe enough, biomedical care will be sought
Herbal remedies
Prepared by older women
Hot and cold
Hot and cold imbalance view
Death
Call from god
Percieved as a new and better life
After death
Body is washed in a ritual manner only by another muslim
Wrapped in a white cotton shroud and placed in coffin
If a women only close female family can see the face
If a man only close male friends and family can see face
Dont allow embalming
In US body is to be placed in coffin and taken to mosque
BODY IS BURIED WITHIN 24HRS AFTER DEATH
autopsies are not suppose to be performed
Jinaza
Dead in a coffin sent to mosqued have only men pray over the body
On top of coffin
Cloth with qur’an is placed on top and is removed during burial
After burial
Attendees go to deceaseds home or mosque to pray
Close family gather to mourn
Women are limited on makeup usage
Immediate family must mourn for a full year
Afghans fast
ramadan
Common diseases
Epilepsy
Blindness
Anemia
Hemophilia
Diabetes
Diet
must be halal
Seasoned rice
Vegetables
Pork
Poultry
Cake
Tea (so lots of caffinee)
use lots of oil
Other common diseases
Thalassemia
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
what do they wear to funerals
white
genetic diseases
due to crosscousins marriages inpast
mental illness
treated as a last resort
can be caused by “thinking too much”
what type of medicine do they believe in?
western
supernatural and folk remedies
herbal remedies prepared by older women
touch
PDA is prohibited
use touch within family
if upset dont try to hug them just sit down and listen to them
family culture
range from modern and cosmopolitan or more traditional
jinns
ghost that cause spirtual illness
