A SUMMARY ON CULTURAL HERITAGE

FOOD GENES SOCIAL COMMUNICATION & TIME HEALTH CARE BELIEFS

ORGANIZATION SPACE ORIENTATION AND PRACTICES
FILIPINO Rice; Meat, Sensitive to Nuclear + Tagalog, English; Past-oriented; Magico-religious;
seafood; adverse extended; Silence, Expressive Eyes; Future- intimate family largely
3 meals a day effects of patriarchal; Rural folks are more oriented; Poor influence decisions;
with snacks; alcohol; women enjoy conservative when it observers of Doctor as major decision
form of Lactose societal status; comes to showing punctuality maker; Western
socialization intolerant utang na loob, affection; shy, medicine, integrated
bayanihan nonagrressive, use of with alternative health
words to show respect practitioners
JAPANESE Rice, gohan; Lactose Nuclear; Love Japanese, English; man Past, present Concepts of yin/yang,
Herbs for Intolerance, not requisite for levels of formality, and future cleanliness, purity,
medicinal CVA due to marriage, bowing, handshake, oriented spiritual devotion, bathe
purposes; Sodium children main laughter, avoid direct in neck-deep water,
eating content of concern of eye contact, don’t like exposure to beauty of
balancing foods food; parents; self- touching, avoid nature; massage,
(yin/yang); cancer; expression not expansive gestures, reflexology, reiki, herbal
Used ritually in asthma valued; girls unusual facial medicine, macrobiotic
celebrations take care of expressions, whole diet
boys, geishas hand when pointing,
silence, grunting, avoid
PDA
CHINESE Yin/yang of Thalassemia Extended Mandarin; may sound Adjusts to the Fatalism, interplay of
food; grains, , Lactose family, strong loud, silence, smile, present; yin/yang; feng shui,
vegetables, Intolerance, filial tendency; handshake, reseved focuses on colors and numbers;
fruit and meat; Hantavirus, Male gestures; avoid completion of Acupuncture, cupping,
regional cuisine Spontaneou dominance, disagreeing, touching, the present herbology, qi jong
s traditional role PDA, direct eye contact; and often
hypoglycem of women, ME whole hand when implements
ia, HPN, generation pointing, ask how to one activity at
 food- address them a time
associated
deficiencies,
TB,
HepatitisB
INDIAN Vegetarian, Thalassemia Extended; Men Hindi, English; head & Past, present Total harmony with
prohibits beef; , G6PD, dominant, hand gestures, silence, and future nature, balance of
Rice, bread; Lactose authoritative, eye contact, avoid PDA oriented elements; ayurveda.,
combination of intolerance; Women and touching; pancharma, yoga
flavors; susceptible passive; Case
Right hand for to system
eating waterborne
and food
diseases,
mental
illness
MEXICAN Rice; spicy, rich Vit A Family, blended Spanish; loud, Present Hot-cold theory,
in color, deficiency, communal seemingly disorganized, oriented, supernatural causes,
texture and anemia, families, “small talk”, touching, relaxed stress, envy; folk
flavor; form of Lactose patriarchal; handshake, smile, avoid concept of practitioners, health care
socialization intolerance, Machismo eye contact with older time professionals
alcoholism, complex; social people, more formal
drug status highly titles to non-family
addiction, valued members; address with
Cardiac respect and
diseases, personalismo, direct
DM questions to dominant
member of the group
ARABIAN  Kosher meat; G6PD, sickle Extended; Men Arabic, behave Predestination; seek care for actual
prohibits alcohol,
cell anemia, dominant role, conservatively, steady punctual; symptoms; birth rites,
drug abuse, fish
without scales, thalassemia, women satisfy eye contact, avoid with circumcision, life
 meat Cardiac husbands women, acceptable to interventions, euthanasia
disease, needs, care of touch if of same sex, do prohibited, synthetic
Diabetes, children; sons not compliment beauty human insulin; burial
sedentary protect sisters, of women to host ASAP, completely cover
lifestyle daughters body, feet towards
source of Mecca, family of same
emotional sex should wash dead
support; body, corpse not left
childbearing alone, notify nearest
women wear Islamic center to pray
hijab; talaq is and read from the
practiced, Qu’ran
dowry in
marriage
BLACKS High in fat, less Sickle Cell Large, extended Black English, Pidgin, Past, future Pain; voodoo, home
fiber, fewer anemia, family Gullah; openly express oriented; remedies
fruits and HPN, networks; many feeling to SO, expressive punctual
veggies; soul Cancer, single parent gestures, humor, avoid
food Lactose households, direct eye contact,
intolerance, stong church touch used freely,
Obesity, affiliations, comfortable with close
Pica social personal space
Diabetes, organizations
STDs
ANGLO- Steak, Thalassemia Nuclear; doing, English, spoken with Time is gold, Germs cause disease,
AMERICAN potatoes, , Cardiac independent accent; direct, informal, future Aggressive approach on
veggies, salad, disease, equality of ask many questions, oriented, value illness, trend towards
deserts; breast CA, sexes, small talk; moderate personal goals; alternative medicine;
packaged diabetes materialistic, voice, few gestures, may vary with drug culture
foods, fully youth & beauty, direct eye contact, SES
prepared meals reliance on handshake, PDA is
 outside of facts, generous, common; often seek to
home helpful increase space, require
more personal space
ITALIAN Fruits, veggies, Mediterran Extended; Italian; passionate when Past, present Engage in health
garlic, pasta, ean fever, Father bread- speaking, raised and future promotion, insurance;
olive oil; pasta, G6PD, HPN winner, Mother volume, speaking at the oriented traditional beliefs,
sausages queen, same time; willingness collaboration of doctors
economic to share feelings & with shamans and
decisions; sons thoughts; touching herbalists
live at home often seen; like contact
until marriage; that make them feel
value family ties they belong
JEWISH Kashrut; meat Bloom Family; Men English, Hebrew, Past, present Jewish law; curcumcsion
and milk never syndrome, breadwinner; Yiddish; use of humor, and future on 8th by a mohel, only
mixed, do not breast and Women keeps avoid touching of oriented; life-saving procedures
bring food to ovarian CA, the home, women other than wife punctual are done on Sabbath
Jewish homes cystic Children most nor look directly
fibrosis, valued
Fanconi treasure; bar
anemia, mitzvah
Tay-Sachs