Afghans And Afghan Americans

Question 1

National languages

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Tone

Answer 2

Women: speak loudly
Men: speak in soft tones

Question 3

Personal information

Answer 3

Reluctant to share personal and family issues

Question 4

Greetings

Answer 4

People who are not family het a head nod or handshake

Question 5

Eye contact

Answer 5

Avoid sustaining eye contact with people of opposite gender

Question 6

Space

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Trust

Answer 7

Family is core
Friendships develop slow due to distrust

Question 8

Quite traditional family

Answer 8

Wife stay at home and cook and clean
father head of house

Question 9

Cosmopolitan

Answer 9

Women enjoy more freedom

Question 10

Religion

Answer 10

84% muslim sunni branch

Muslim shi’a 15%

Question 11

Past orientation

Answer 11

Tradition and family

Question 12

Present orientation

Answer 12

Social interactions

Question 13

Future orientation

Answer 13

Hard work and commitment to children’s education

Question 14

Sleep patterns

Answer 14

Associated with PTSD (night terrors)

Question 15

Loci of control

Answer 15

External and internal

Question 16

Concept of health and illness

Answer 16

Natural and supernatural

Question 17

Folk tradition and western treatments

Answer 17

Both valued and used at the same time

Question 18

Prayers and verses of qur’an

Answer 18

Used for specific illnesses

Question 19

Mild natural illnesses

Answer 19

Treated with only home remedies and dietary means

If severe enough, biomedical care will be sought

Question 20

Herbal remedies

Answer 20

Prepared by older women

Question 21

Hot and cold

Answer 21

Hot and cold imbalance view

Question 22

Death

Answer 22

Call from god
Percieved as a new and better life

Question 23

After death

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Jinaza

Answer 24

Dead in a coffin sent to mosqued have only men pray over the body

Question 25

On top of coffin

Answer 25

Cloth with qur’an is placed on top and is removed during burial

Question 26

After burial

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Afghans fast

Answer 27

ramadan

Question 28

Common diseases

Answer 28

Epilepsy
Blindness
Anemia
Hemophilia
Diabetes

Question 29

Diet

Answer 29

must be halal
Seasoned rice
Vegetables
Pork
Poultry
Cake
Tea (so lots of caffinee)
use lots of oil

Question 30

Other common diseases

Answer 30

Thalassemia
Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase

Question 31

what do they wear to funerals

Answer 31

white

Question 32

genetic diseases

Answer 32

due to crosscousins marriages inpast

Question 33

mental illness

Answer 33

treated as a last resort
can be caused by “thinking too much”

Question 34

what type of medicine do they believe in?

Answer 34

western
supernatural and folk remedies
herbal remedies prepared by older women

Question 35

touch

Answer 35

PDA is prohibited
use touch within family
if upset dont try to hug them just sit down and listen to them

Question 36

family culture

Answer 36

range from modern and cosmopolitan or more traditional

Question 37

jinns

Answer 37

ghost that cause spirtual illness