This interview explores the cultural background, communication styles, values, family structure, and adaptation strategies of an individual from a Tamil Indian background in Malaysia, highlighting the influence of culture and religion on interpersonal interactions.
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Hi, thank you for joining this short
interview. My name is Norani Arisa. I'm
doing this for assignment about
communication and culture. I just want
to ask you a few simple question about
your culture.
First, uh can you can you introduce yourself?
yourself?
>> Okay. So thank you first of all uh
taking time to interview me. My name is
Sashna Burma and I'm come from uh
cultural and rich in my Indian
background. So various Indian uh
community is the minority compared to
the majority community in this uh
country. Yeah.
>> What your culture and relig religious
background do you come from?
Okay. So as I affiration I'm uh I'm in
Tamil culture where in Indian culture
itself we have a lot of uh divides uh
especially we have Tamil Tu Mallayam and
we have a lot of uh religious and I'm
from the Tamil background. So from my
culture itself we actually taught to
respect our parents. we need to follow
our traditions and also we need to
follow the etiquets that uh my religion
told me to do. So uh so especially we
need to respect the olders. We need to
have the good attitude and manner when
we talk to others. Uh so yeah. >> All right.
How would you describe the communication
style in your culture?
>> Okay. So since I'm from the Tamil
background, so we currently we will use
uh Tamil language as our primary
language uh despite uh Bahasa Malaysia
and also English. Yeah. >> Um
>> Um
what values are considered important in
your culture?
>> Okay. So what are considered important?
Yeah. Okay. So if consideration is
higher I would say about uh the values
that instill from my from my childhood
itself especially uh when we are
converse with our friends we need to use
proper language okay without um we we
don't need uh we we are restrained from
using any bad words uh and also we need
to have a good converse with uh friends
and also Um those who like uh elderly
people we need to always uh uh shook
hand uh before we talk anything we need
to what we need to
wait a moment.
So we need to like uh respect so when we
talk so currently these are the core
values that um I'm currently practicing
and I hope I doing my best in my culture.
culture.
Um how would you describe the family
structure in your culture?
Okay, family structure itself uh
actually like uh of course it's from our
ancestors and also um what I can say is
the elderly people always cultivate
their norm especially when when eating
you need to have a proper etiquette and
also when we talk to others as I said
before and also we did uh if we are uh
what we call if we are decision we we if
we are want to uh do a decision making
process we need to ask elderly people
first before we anything we decided for.
So yeah so that's my family structure
it's especially rich in my culture.
>> Um have you experienced culture shock?
um culture shock yes because I'm
currently a UNC student from UPSI
so uh in UPSi itself we have a lot of uh
uh students from different different
background and of course as university
student first of all we were like
culture shock because of their language
right because um I also have a language
barrier when they talk other than the
primary languages that spoken in in Malaysia
Malaysia
uh like example Bas Malaysia English. So
rather than these languages like they
use Plantanis or they use any Tan
slangs. So I would be um a big culture
shock because I couldn't speak or
converse with them uh as well. So yeah
and also their culture is too too
different from my culture itself. So
yeah simply yes.
>> Next question.
And does your religion influence how you communicate?
