What Strategies to Use When Faced with Intercultural
What Strategies to Use
When Faced with
Intercultural Barriers
Nicole Predmore
Com/200
September 21, 2015
A Little about Sammad Gavde
• Sammad Gaved is 45 years old, and moved from India with his parents, Kia and Gagni, when he was a ten year old boy. He was raised in a strict Buddhist household, and after moving to America they taught themselves the English language and opened their first family owned and operated business, in Winston, Georgia. When Sammad was 23, he met Anna, who soon became his wife, and they had a beautiful baby girl they named Lotus, in 2011.
Interview Questions and
Responses
• Q.) Where were your born?
• A.) Banglador, India.
• Q.) What is your native language? • A.) Kannada
• What are your religious belief, and practices?
•
A.) My family practice the Buddhism, we believe in human nature, as well as, nature itself, and ultimate reality, where we choose not to eat ant type of meat or fish, or eggs, but our reasoning seemed to be hard for most Americans to understand.
Interview Questions Continued..
• Q.) Where did you meet your wife? • A.) I have family that lives here in America. I met Anna through a relative and a dinner party. Once
I got to know her I learned we had similar beliefs and that her family was still living in India, in close proximity to where I was raised as a child.
Q.) What was it like moving to America as a young child?
A.) I’m not going to lie, it was difficult at first. I felt very isolated at first until I started to meet other families that moved here from India.
Going to school here in America proved difficult since I was not fluent in the English language.
Indian Culture Differs from American
Culture
I want to share a quote by Henry David Thoreau- “It is never too late to give up your prejudices.”
People from different cultures often have a hard time understanding each other because have no common ground, they have no common interests and no common language. Learning about one another is what this country
When Faced with
Intercultural Barriers
Nicole Predmore
Com/200
September 21, 2015
A Little about Sammad Gavde
• Sammad Gaved is 45 years old, and moved from India with his parents, Kia and Gagni, when he was a ten year old boy. He was raised in a strict Buddhist household, and after moving to America they taught themselves the English language and opened their first family owned and operated business, in Winston, Georgia. When Sammad was 23, he met Anna, who soon became his wife, and they had a beautiful baby girl they named Lotus, in 2011.
Interview Questions and
Responses
• Q.) Where were your born?
• A.) Banglador, India.
• Q.) What is your native language? • A.) Kannada
• What are your religious belief, and practices?
•
A.) My family practice the Buddhism, we believe in human nature, as well as, nature itself, and ultimate reality, where we choose not to eat ant type of meat or fish, or eggs, but our reasoning seemed to be hard for most Americans to understand.
Interview Questions Continued..
• Q.) Where did you meet your wife? • A.) I have family that lives here in America. I met Anna through a relative and a dinner party. Once
I got to know her I learned we had similar beliefs and that her family was still living in India, in close proximity to where I was raised as a child.
Q.) What was it like moving to America as a young child?
A.) I’m not going to lie, it was difficult at first. I felt very isolated at first until I started to meet other families that moved here from India.
Going to school here in America proved difficult since I was not fluent in the English language.
Indian Culture Differs from American
Culture
I want to share a quote by Henry David Thoreau- “It is never too late to give up your prejudices.”
People from different cultures often have a hard time understanding each other because have no common ground, they have no common interests and no common language. Learning about one another is what this country