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Cultural Reflection Paper

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In my culture, gender roles are very personal. Gender roles contribute to how females and males should think, speak, dress, and interact with others. There are different ways gender roles have developed over time and how people choose to interpret gender roles and what the male and female have to do. I was born and raised in San Diego California. My mom is from Acapulco, Guerrero and my dad is from Morelos, Cuernavaca. They both were raised by strict mexican parents who raised them to be responsible at a young age. Both of my parents started working at the age of 10. My dad would work at a bakery after school and then switched up to driving trucks, transporting beer. My mom didn’t get the chance to go to school, my grandparents sent my uncle instead. She would go sell food to el mercado the whole day then come back with her sister, and make food for their brothers and wash their clothes. My grandma would make my aunts and mom do things for their brothers thing that they could have done for themselves. Because my mom was always doing thing for her brothers and my dad sisters had to do things for him that weren’t always in his power to say no do not do it, but his parents. They decided to not fully continue this way of teaching and raised me and my siblings in a similar way but not as strict as their parents. In my society mostly all children start growing up at a young age so they start mature earlier than others. Some may say it is because of where they come from and

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