Group:
第三組
Group members: 499c0082 郭栩含 499c0132 顏敔卉
Target Culture: Republic of the Philippines
Interview questions
Background information:
What is your name? What is the meaning of your name?
Bambi. No particular
meaning.
Where do you come from?
Philippines
For how long have you stayed in Taiwan? About 2 years.
What is your gender? female
What subject do you study here? Business Administration
I. Objective culture
Could you tell us some important features of your culture?
a. Where is your country? What natural resources do you have? Who are the people
making up the population?
Philippines is a sovereign country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To
its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. Our country has abundant minerals, such
as copper, gold, and magnesium. Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Cojuangco Aquino III
is our president.
b. What is the staple food in your country? Do you have any special table manners?
What agricultural produce do you have in your country?
Rice and corn is our stable food. Famous food is that cook rice with coconut milk.
I recommend you some foods name are adobo and sinigang. The most important is
respect senior, and talk to each other in undertone.
Because we are very sensitive
about self dignity. We have banana, mango, pineapple and coconut those
agricultural produce.
c. How is the weather like in your country?
The mean annual temperature range around 27°C. Seasonal variations in
temperature are very small, less than 5% in sheltered areas like the Cagayan valley,
which is relatively cool in the month of January and stiflingly hot in the middle of the
dry season with an average of 32°C in May.
d. What kinds of clothes do people wear to work or to school? What do people wear at
home? What do people wear to formal events? Do you have any traditional costumes
in your country? When do you wear those traditional costumes?
The all-conquering garment is the cotton T-shirt, and most young people wear jeans
or Western-style trousers in a variety of colors. We always wear comfortable clothes
at home. Traditional Filipino dress, showing strong Spanish influence, is still worn
as a national costume and as formal wear at official receptions. Women wear
Spanish garment. Men wear the barong tagalog, a shirt of fine material (jusi,
sinamay, abaca or ramie fibre) with either long or short sleeves. We wear those
traditional customs in important event.
e. What are the most famous landmarks, historical sites, tourist attractions, or
architectures tourists must visit?
Malate Church(馬尼拉教堂), Intramuros(因托拉姆洛斯), Coconut Palace(椰
Pagasanjan(百勝灘) in Manila.
子宮) and
Boracay(長灘島), Subic(蘇比克,克拉克)
f. What does the typical house look like? Is it expensive to buy a house or an
apartment? When do young people leave home? Do young adults live with their
parents?
The typical house is look like Bahay kubo.Young people leave home probably after
graduate university. Our life style is all family live together.
g. How do people get to work?
They often get to work by foot or ride bicycle.
h. What is the most popular sport in your country? Do you play it?
Boxing. No, I’m just look.
i. Who is the most famous (your favorite) singer in your country? What is his/her
most famous song about?
Charice Pempengco. I am telling You I am not going
2. Regarding the items mentioned in question 1, what differences do you find between
your culture and Taiwanese culture?
When we gets to work, we always by drive or ride motorcycle. But they are by foot. If
you need to commute your workplace is long distance, is must a hard thing. The sport
is very different between two countries. Our popular sport is baseball or basketball.
I’m rarely hear people play boxing in Taiwan.
II. Subjective Culture
1. Could you tell us the subjective feature of your culture?
History has not been unique and unified culture of the Philippines. One of the main
reasons is because the Philippines are an island nation, there are so many different
languages in various areas, hard to Exchange, cultural development and
characteristics are much localized.
Time: Is it important to be punctual?Not very punctual. Do people always arrive on
time?Sometimes. Is it ok to arrive late? Yes.Always 15 to 30 minutes.
Invitation: Is it normal to invite a friend to have dinner at home? Yes.Or people meet
in the public places, like restaurants or cafés? Sometimes.Do you need to bring
something if you are invited? Courtesy will take something.
Greeting: How do people greet each other when they meet?
With lifted brows to show the greeting.
Do you shake hands, bow, hug, or kiss? Sometimes to shake hands.
A handshake is the common form of greeting. Women kiss in token of affection; while
men will sometimes embrace one another, Spanish-fashion, clapping one another
vigorously on the back.
Agreement and disagreement: How do you express agreement or disagreement?
Agreement.
Directness: Is it polite to be direct?Yes,very polite.
Do people use body language a lot? Yes,a lot.
g. Are there any taboos foreigners must know before visiting your countries?
Taboos left hand delivery food.
What do you think are the underlying reasons of those taboos?
It is contempt of others.
III. 就你自己的經驗，對這個訪談活動有何心得感想:
我覺得這個訪談活動有何優點?
可以學到他國的文化,增進自己的知識. 在一般生活來說,自己是不太會去探討
菲律賓人的生活習慣和文化等等. 但這個訪談裡讓我充實了自己對菲律賓國 家
的文化知識.。
我學到什麼新的文化知識?
我覺得菲國和台灣差異最大的地方是,如果我們約定一個時間吃飯,我 們講求準
時赴約,但他們是越重要的人物越晚到越好,如果提前到或是準時到, 他們會以為
你是為了吃而來. 當他們遇到盛大節日時每個人都會盛裝打扮,而 我們只有政府
官員才會打扮,一般人就也是穿著普通的衣服而已.。
我學到什麼新的語言或單字?
菲律賓語言, Tagalog. Hello Kamusta ka(你好) Pasen-sha(謝謝)
我在和外籍學生中運用什麼溝通技巧來理解和表達?
因為我們的英文對話能力還沒有到很好,大部分都用身體語言來表達比較多 或
者是用寫的,有時候他們講英文會有一種腔調,我們聽不懂時她也是用寫的 給我
們. 肢體語言在表達上有很大的幫助但是有時候要小心一些語言是會讓 外國人
會錯意的。
我覺得訪談活動有什麼缺點?
題目有的有點難問,問到作者和著名的書就有點卡住了. 還是會有溝通不良的 時
候。
我在尋找國際學生訪談的過程是否有任何困難?
有,一開始不知道要去哪裡找. 是透過很多人才找到她願意幫我們做這份問卷。