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Languages
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Official languages:
French Creole
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- Affectionate, polite but shy, and extremely modest .
- Not committed to time or schedules .
- Tightly knit extended family .
- Matriarchal society, although men are allowed to believe
that they are head of household, although women are the
backbone of the family.
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Religion & Death Concepts/Rituals |
- Catholic .
- Death mobilizes entire family; all arrangements made by
elder kinsman of dying .
- Dernie priye is a special prayer service consisting of
7 consecutive days of prayer, usually at the home to facilitate
the passage of the soul to the next world.
- Cremation not acceptable because of the belief in resurrection
and paradise.
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| Health
Care Values |
- Good health seen as a balance between eating right, personal
hygiene, prayer and good spiritual habits.
- Mental illness is not well accepted and usually believed
to have supernatural causes.
- Physical deformities believed to be caused by angry spirits.
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| Diet |
- Usually lunch is the largest meal of the day.
- In hospitals, prefer to fast than to eat non-Haitian foods.
- They prefer rice, beans, and plantain, spicy braised meat
with gravy and stewed vegetables and chicken.
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| Interesting
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- While interacting with Americans, if they don’t
understand, they will still show approval by nodding, rather
than expose their limitations.
- Voodoo priest (mambo or hougan) sought by believers who
need to worship the spirit to be relieved of the illness.
- Haiti means "land of mountains".
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