Question

I need to conduct Interview with someone of a different culture than I am. I identify as an American (mixed white and Mexican) I am an only child raised by a single mother.
Please answer the following questions.
What is your culture, race and and ethnicity?
What traditions have been established in your culture?
What cultural patterns are present throughout this culture?
Has your cultural identity been shaped because of your culture?
Are there any Cultural biased that separate your culture from others?

Answer 1

Q1. What are your culture, race, and ethnicity?

Hey, mine is Navajo Culture. We are Native American people of the Southwestern United States.

Q2. What traditions have been established in your culture?

The Navajo life is particularly rich in ceremony and ritual. We have nine great ceremonies for the treatment of ills, mental and physical. There are also many less important ceremonies occupying four days, two days, and one day in our performance. In these ceremonies many dry-paintings, or “sand altars,” are made, depicting the characters and incidents of myths. Almost every act of our life—the building of the hogán(house), the planting of crops, etc.—is ceremonial, each being attended with songs and prayers. Navajos came to the southwest with their weaving traditions; however, they learned to weave cotton on upright looms from Pueblo peoples.

Q3 What cultural patterns are present throughout this culture?

Navajo Culture – are very geared toward family life and events that surround their lifestyle. Many games and traditions have emerged from their love of the land and their attachment to it. Long winter nights and the seclusion of the reservation have brought about most of the customs and activities used by the People to entertain and amuse themselves. The Navajo resemble other Apachean peoples in their general preference for limiting centralized tribal or political organization, although they have adopted pan-tribal governmental and legal systems to maintain tribal sovereignty. Traditional Navajo society was organized through matrilineal kinship; small, independent bands of related kin generally made decisions on a consensus basis. Similar groups still exist but tend to be based on the locality of residence as well as kinship; many of these local groups have elected leaders. A local group is not a village or town but rather a collection of dwellings or hamlets distributed over a wide area.

Q4.Has your cultural identity been shaped because of your culture?

Yes of course. My cultural beliefs and practices carved up my whole identity. Being a culture, that's rich in practices, rituals, and other traditions we all grew up in the vibe of our culture, even amid urbanization. Even in the 21st century, many Navajo continued to live a predominantly traditional lifestyle, speaking the Navajo language, practicing the religion, and organizing through traditional forms of social structure.

Q5.Are there any cultural differences that separate your culture from others?

many things differentiate Navajos from other cultures. mentioning a few among them

• Navajoland being one among them Navajoland is unique because the people here have achieved something quite rare: the ability of indigenous people to blend both traditional and modern ways of life. The Navajo Nation truly is a nation within a nation. In years past, Navajoland often appeared to be little more than a desolate section of the Southwest, but yet is a mixture of arid deserts and alpine forests with high plateaus, mesas, and mountains
• THE ANNUAL NAVAJO NATION FAIR

Every first week of September is The Annual Navajo Nation Fair, boasting as the largest American Indian fair in the United States – in the Navajo Nation Capital in Window Rock, Arizona. Rodeos are always a favorite in Navajo country. The Dean C. Jackson Arena will be filled with spectators all dressed in their best boots and jeans while cowboys and cowgirls compete in the All-Indian Rodeo, Senior & Youth Rodeos, and Wild Horse Races.

• a matrilineal system,
• Historically, the structure of the Navajo society is largely a matrilineal system, in which the family of the women-owned livestock, dwellings, planting areas, and livestock grazing areas. Once married, a Navajo man would follow a matrilocal residence and live with his bride in her dwelling and near her mother's family. Daughters (or, if necessary, other female relatives) were traditionally the ones who received the generational property inheritance. In cases of marital separation, women would maintain the property and children. Children are "born to" and belong to the mother's clan, and are "born for" the father's clan. The mother's eldest brother has a strong role in her children's lives. As adults, men represent their mother's clan in tribal politic