Table 4.

Hispanic and Asian Americans’ cultural perspectives on tissue donation.

HISPANICS/LATINAS			ASIAN AMERICANS
CODE	RESPONSES	QUOTE(S)	CODE	RESPONSES	QUOTE(S)
Cultural norms	7 (54%)	“… it is about community, it is about family.”  “… motivated by doing some craft things like little cards for my family in Mexico.” “Latinas are more wanting to think in terms of family.”	Distrust or lack of familiarity	6 (35%)	“There's a lot of like religious, but also cultural stigmas to giving something of your body for research.” “I think in the US it's very common to have blood drives and like tissue drives and more common than other countries, but I mean my family in Japan have no idea what I mean.” “And then there's like the black market of trading blood and tissues and some people like, those poor people, leaving the wage to actually do that for a living. So although they call it donation on the surface, but you know, it's just a cover up for their trading."
Seeing own people or hearing own language	7 (54%)	“I would put a Hispanic or an Asian woman here so they could identify with them." “I imagine you're translating this into Spanish, right?” “It'll get grandma or my mom to do it if this in Spanish.”
HISPANICS/LATINAS			ASIAN AMERICANS
CODE	RESPONSES	QUOTE(S)	CODE	RESPONSES	QUOTE(S)
Race and ethnicity are important	5 (38%)	“The only piece that is missing for me is, if you're targeting specifically Latinas and Asians include it … just say, get involved, we need women like you. So that would make me feel needed.”	Cultural norms	6 (35%)	“When I told my mother that I donated breast tissue and she's like why? Why would you do this? You know, why would you put yourself through that?”
Do something good	8 (62%)	“We need to be kind to each other, and for that reason I would do it”  “This is something I could do also to help and it doesn't cost me anything.” “The fact that you feel that you are part of something positive, something good is important to me.”	Helping family or friends	3 (18%)	“I have a personal connection that would be the highest rank for me.”  “My family or really close friends, if it helps them then yeah I'll consider it."