Growing Up Culture

Balancing my cultures growing up was confusing as a young child; at one grandparents’ house I was Mexican, and the other, Laotian. Today I embrace both which has cuisine benefits during the holidays. Also, being different than my peers has been a constant struggle. Nonetheless I am understanding of others upbringings and am observant and self aware that I should embrace the culture around me without losing sense of who I am culturally and individually. This has been a realisation that has taken years to develop but has transformed me into an accepting and compassionate individual because so many were not for me. Regardless I am proud to be a texan, a southerner and an american. In addition being of a divorced family led to me, the eldest, filing in as the other parent sometimes acting as such in regard to care. I have been a parent to my siblings in my own right and didn't realize this until my younger sister told me so. Between making sure that we were awake for going to school, lunches being packed, homework finished and baths taken, I have a great sense of duty to family as well as initiative. I grew up quickly but wouldn’t change my circumstances even if I could. I have learned how to cope with stress and persevere and that a person should do things not because they are told to but rather because they are needed to be

Most common cultures have rituals, celebrations, or traditional ceremonies to acknowledge the coming of age of boys and/or girls. The Hispanic culture have a traditional “Quinceañera” for young teenage girls turning age 15 to recognize her coming of age as a woman. Jews have “Bar Mitzvah” for men or “Bat Mitzvah” for women to celebrate coming of age. Although in some cultures, celebrating coming age is nothing less than actually celebrating; but in other cultures, such as Aborigine culture, rather than having a huge celebration, young teenage boys, age thirteen, are enduring an essential evaluation. In this stage of their life, their elders test them to see if they are “man” enough to survive by themselves.

In a society, people adhere to various rules and standards that are created and maintained in culture. On page 50, the definition of culture is shared beliefs, values, and practices that participants must learn. Defining one’s own culture can be quite difficult, much less hard to articulate, but it is often the deciding factor when it comes to making personal and social decisions. Independence is strongly rooted in American culture and helps identify modern society to the general population of American-raised children, and explains how the value of American independence has shaped my individual culture.

I am a Native American male. I am from the Lummi Nation Tribe, but was raised on the Nooksack Indian reservation. My father is the one who raised me. He is an ex-convict who has no income of his own, and never graduated high school. We make rent and pay our bills thanks to support from my grandparents and our tribal assistance. My father is also an ex-drug addict, so he has to attend a methadone clinic every morning to kill his crave for drugs. He is also now an alcoholic, and has been for about two to three years off and on. This is not what has shaped me. Even though he has not been a role model for me I have set my own goals in life. My grandparents both have led decently successful lives, but I do not believe they are the ones who have

I come from a big Mexican cultural family, family oriented too I must add. The bond I have with my parents, sisters and cousins my age is strong and unbreakable. I didn’t need much friends because the friendship I have with them is more than enough. I was raised in a home with two hardworking, loving and amazing parents. And because of them I am the person who I am today. Also thanks to them I have always had everything I need, I was never missing anything. Always had a roof over my head, food on my plate, clothes on my back and a bed to rest on. Seeing how hard they had to work for the things I needed made me realize that nothing in life is free and you have to work for the things you need, and work even harder for the things you want. Living in the home I was raised in taught me values. Values of honesty, love, responsibility, kindness and respect. Even though my parents are strict and tough with me at times I know it’s for the benefit of my own good and they’re just making sure I do what’s best for me, and I wouldn’t have wanted it any other

My entire life, my parents have always wanted what was best for me. My dad, an immigrant who moved here at the age of seven, speaking not one word of english. He lost his father at the age of five, and his mother at the age of sixteen. Therefore, he practically raised himself. He graduated high school from Honokaa High & Intermediate School, but had no desire or intention to further his education. My mom, born and raised in Puna, had parents who were separated for majority of her life. A father who wasn’t very involved in her life, and a mother who chose drugs over everything else in her life, especially her five kids, my mother being the second youngest. My father, for all of my life, has worked six days out of the week, to provide everything I could ever possibly need; along with my mother, who has, at times worked multiple jobs at once, to support me, in

The term culturally constructed means that adolescence is not solely a biological state or condition that young adults go through on their journey to adulthood, being culturally constructed means that our culture around us determines at what age we enter adolescence as well as some of the changes in our life that happen during that time (lecture two ). To me I think a good example of adolescence being culturally constructed is in the film we watched stand by me were the boys felt like to be a man or to be accepted in their society as a man they had to do something heroic as an example in the movie they had to go find the body of the young boy that went missing and this would make them heroes and their community and people would view them no

The kids in this society are changing their beliefs in the culture because of the internet . There are sites like wikipedia that someone can change information at anytime . Why is this so ? Whats a prime example of the changing of young kids culture and what they believe . There's captions , and story lines about the black community right now and if you're a young kid on facebook or even twitter , what you see is what you're honestly going to believe .

Thinking about the events that have brought me to where I am today, the most appropriate model of identity development for myself would be the White Racial Identity Development: A Descriptive Model developed by Sue and Sue (2016). This model consists of seven phases: Naivete, Conformity, Dissonance, Resistance and immersion, Introspective, Integrative awareness, and Commitment to antiracist action. I believe that I am now entering or transitioning into the Integrative awareness phase. At this point I have learned a lot about myself and thought a lot about what it means to be White and how my life has been impacted by being White. Through the questioning and learning in the previous phase, I have a much better understanding of how racism is still at play in our society today and how I can personally make changes in my own life and on a larger scale. I think in the career path I have chosen, I will have plenty opportunities to help advocate and be an ally to those that are different from me. I have become much more comfortable having conversations with people who are different from me and want to continue learning.

In the beginning my family would of been labeled as lower class on the socioeconomic status. My Microsystem includes my family and school. My mother mostly had raised me while my dad went to college. They lived in an apartment and had move out to lived with my mother's parents who lived in a poor town which is part of the exosystem, because I had no direct contact with that decision. Also, I was affected big time by that decision. I did not receive the best education till this day I'm amazed how fared I have came. I struggled a lot in school until got to high school I had improved somewhat. Not only that my father would have to work most of day which left my mother to do everything that just added stress on her sometimes.

In the article “Fluid and Shifting: Racialized, Gendered, and Sexual Identity in African American Children” by Denise Isom. Isom talks about how the researchers were studying African American Children, and racialized gender identity. There were several ways that the research was conducted they include: questionnaires, one-on-one interviews, and observation ethnography. The study was conducted from 2001-2002, in a “lower/ working class African American community near a large mid-western city” (Isom, 2012). The participants were children enrolled in a community based after-school program. To gain insight on early conceptions of one’s self and others as far as gender and race (focusing on how they intersect), children from grades five, six,

To get a feel of how my parents were; my parents strayed away from the Asian stereotype which was that all Asian families live under the authoritarian parenting style (Rathus & Longmir, 2010). Instead, my parents chose to adopt the permissive-indulgent parenting style (Rathus & Longmir, 2010) my parents were really laid back; they did not force me to go down a certain career path, instead, they were supportive of my decision to pursue social service work despite them not knowing what it means to become a social service worker. There were not many rules in the house other than the usual “do not do drugs” or “do not skip school, do well in school” My parents reasoning for adopting this parenting style was because, my parents did not want us to be raised like how they were raised, my parents were scared that If they adopted the authoritative parenting style, that when I got older, I would have some resentment towards them. Currently, I am slowly developing a sense of independence by taking on more responsibilities and thinking for myself rather than letting my parents do

The first five things that come to mind that have affected my personal culture are family background, religious affiliation, language, ethnicity, and friends. I come from a family with both parents and several siblings. Everyone in my family is Christian, all of them having grown up in the church, typically Nazarene. My entire family is made of Caucasian, native English speakers. Because of that, most of my friends are also native English speakers and all Christian.

The environment, family, and community I have grown up in has shaped me as a person. So far, I grew up in the same house all seventeen years of my life. My personality has grown and molded over the years of middle school and high school based off the lessons I have learned and the things I’ve been through.

During my early childhood, I had both of my parents and grew up with three other siblings from a different Father. Both of my parents were born in Belize in Central America. I was born in New York. They instilled many thoughts, ideas and traditions of the Belizean culture. My mother had an authoritarian style of parenting meanwhile my Father had an authoritative style of parenting. Looking back at it, it made sense because I was closer to my Father than my Mother. My Mother was the one to always saying “No” to everything and my Father was stern but we had a great relationship.