Kinship

My Kinship Chart

1. I will give a brief introduction of my interviewee. I decided to do my kinship post and interview on my aunt (my father's sister). Her name is Norma Garcia-Dharkus. She is 39 years old, and she has been working for a computer software company for almost 15 years. She is of Hispanic and Caucasian ethnic background. She is a mother of three boys of ages 14,6, and a newborn baby boy. She is fluent in English and Spanish. She was born and raised in Pomona, California.

2. When I conducted this interview, everything went so smooth. There was no awkwardness at all. I believe what really helped the interview not being awkward was that my aunt and I are really close. I can talk to her about anything, and she can talk to me about anything.If there were to be awkwardness in the interview, I believe the outcome of the interview was going to a lot different , and I might not have gotten the results I wanted. It would be different if I interviewed someone who is not related to me, because they would have not told me private information which would have affected the thoroughness of the interview.

3. We discussed that both my grandfathers from my mom and dad's side are deceased, and both my grandmothers from both sides are still very much healthy. Attitudes towards the elder and the youngest are equal, we think it's important to consider everyone in the family. What I can see, from my kinship chart, family trend is really small, I observed that both sides of my family are no bigger than five individuals in the family (dad, mom, and three children). Both sides of the family have different ethnic backgrounds.

4. Family members on my mom's side of the family are more to themselves and shy which I think might be why we do not socialize with them like my dad's family. What is really strange, My family doesn't really communicate nor socialize with my mom's side of the family, and we just don't know why. Both sides of the family live in Southern California, but I tend to socialize more with my dad's family than my mom's family. As for knowing family members more, I believe I know more about my father's family than I do of my mother's family as well as the family history. The ones that influence decisions for family matters are the fathers in the family. I believe they are more "old school", and so the fathers are like the head of the house. Family members are not treated differently whether you're born into the family or married to the family, they are not treated differently. . I have not observed attitudes based upon genders within my family.