Adaptação transcultural da alimentação de missionários brasileiros no exterior

Abstract

This work aimed to investigate the life of the missionaries living abroad, with the objective of understanding how the process of cross - cultural food adaptation of this group of people takes place. Regarding the methodology, this research is characterized as a strategic exploratory social, with a quantitative-qualitative approach, and the applied technique for data collection was a questionnaire composed of open and closed questions that approached the process of adaptation in the language, food , climate, culture and religion. The study population comprised fifteen missionaries who have been on mission for more than a year outside Brazil and the data analysis was done using the content analysis method proposed by Minayo (2014). At the end of the research, it was possible to verify that the greatest difficulties in the adaptation process are related to language and food. It was also noted the importance of elucidating this issue, since changing the country changes the food and living habits of the expatriate, making further studies necessary to help these people adjust more easily in a different region.