Received Homophily Measure Essay Questions

The Perceived Homophily Measure is an assessment composed of eight questions. The questions are built to determine how similar you perceive someone to be like you, either in attitude or in background. For the assessment I had to choose an acquaintance I recently met and had to answer the eight questions to determine my perceived similarity between her and I. My results were thirteen for attitude homophily and fifteen for background homoplily. Four to fourteen indicates that you perceive the person to be dissimilar. Fifteen to 20 indicates that you find the other person similar. First, from what I have learned from her I have managed to get the impression that we are not fully interested in the same things. My result of thirteen for attitude homophily agrees that we are not so similar in that aspect. I know that we do share some common interests. We both really love make up and other small things, however our attitudes towards other things
This means that I perceive her background to be moderately similar to mine, which I can also agree with to an extent. I know we both grew up in small towns and went to small high schools and we both ended up at UW-Whitewater. The basics of our life kind of seem genrally the same, however I know that they most likely aren’t. I am Mexican-American so I know right away that our backgrounds are culturally different which is a very decisive thing to determine background similarity. I know that she hasn’t experienced a lot of the same things I have experienced and vice versa. I know that our cultural influences are slightly different. Since my family is Mexican I know that communicating with her is always going to be slightly different than when I communicate with someone else within my cultural background who shares my same attitudes, beliefs, and customs. For instance, if I were to tell her about some of my family’s traditions she most likely would not be able to relate at