Bibliographic record
Abstract
This qualitative study investigates how immigration affects the food choices of Muslim Arab immigrants who currently reside in two communities in Southern Ontario, Canada. When immigrants move to a new country they tend to adjust in a variety of ways, this includes a change in their food choices. This process of cultural adjustment, or acculturation, occurs with various immigrant groups, including Arab Muslim immigrants to Canada. This group was selected as the focus for this research due to the growing Arab Muslim immigrant population in Canada and the lack of previous research among this population. This study utilizes a phenomenological methodology to understand participant's lived experiences, as well as their perceptions and feelings around food choice. This study also aims to determine whether Arab Muslims have maintained their traditional diet or are incorporating more Western foods into their diet. In order to have a rich source of data, the study recruits Arab Muslims mothers who have resided in Canada for five years or more. Data is collected by semi‐structured individual interviews with the participants conducted in Arabic. Interview questions focus on the participant's experience of moving to Canada in terms of food availability, meal preparation and food choices. Data are translated into English and coded utilizing the NVivo10 Qualitative Analysis Software environment. In addition, the participants are administered an adapted version of The Male Arab‐American Acculturation Scale (MAAS) to all study participants, which uses a descriptive manner to discuss participants' attitudes towards acculturation. Results from initial qualitative interviews indicate that Arab immigrants to Canada strive to maintain their traditional eating practices and food choices. Participants report that traditional foods were widely available in their communities at large supermarkets, but they expressed concerns over the costs of food and the general lack of flavour and freshness of food in Canada. They felt that their traditional foods maintained a link to their cultural identity and that, as mothers, they had an important role to play in feeding their families while maintaining their cultural background. The participants reported generally avoiding fast food. Most did not take their families to eat out at restaurants except rarely and on special occasions due to financial constraints. Participants expressed a variety of attitudes towards Western food and to religious observances around food. While some were open minded about trying Western foods, some expressed resistance to trying new things. There were varying levels of adhering to religious dietary observances; some participants stressed the importance of strict religious observances around food, others stressed that “good Muslims should be flexible”. Support or Funding Information Saudi Culture Bureau, Canada
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".