The nurse is caring for a Chinese patient who is reluctant to answer questions about her health background. The nurse asks the patient if she would like her husband present when health questions are asked
The nurse does this knowing that the Chinese culture is a collectivistic and patrilineal culture. What does this mean?
a. Kinship extends to both the father's side and the mother's side of the family.
b. Kinship is limited to the side of the father.
c. Kinship is limited to the side of the mother.
d. The husband becomes part of the wife's clan after marriage.
ANS: B
In collectivistic cultures, families are made up of distant blood relatives across three generations and fictive or nonblood kin. Kinship extends to both the father's and the mother's side of the family (bilineal) or is limited to the side of either father (patrilineal) or mother (matrilineal). Patrilineally extended families exist among Chinese and Hindus, where a woman moves into her husband's clan after marriage and minimizes ties with her own parents and siblings.
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