Importance And Importance Of Family Values

In my own family, many of the traditions we continue to celebrate and do would not have been passed on if it was not for the closeness of our family. My mother can make many native foods from growing up around her grandmother such as traditional Creek Fry bread; things that I know I will one day pass on to my children. I can still remember my great grandmother teaching my sister and I how to do traditional basket weaving, a tradition still taught in classes at the Creek Nation today. "Basket-weaving is one of the oldest known Native American crafts" and shows the diversity of tribes as the different styles of basket-weaving are still present today (Lollman). If families did not pass on our heritage, many of our native songs and dances performed at powwows would not be around to see or reenact today. Ultimately all of the traditions we have today would not be here if it was not for the families passing their knowledge and memories down.

As I mentioned before my family and I deal a lot with immigration. In fact, just before Trump became president my cousin who was 16 at the time came from El Salvador to the United States illegally and we had to deal with constantly worrying about her because it took months for her to arrive to the U.S. and then she got caught by the immigration police when she was within U.S. borders and we had to then deal with that for a couple months while we gathered the paper work to gain custody of her since she was a minor. Luckily for us things worked out and she is now living with us as we are currently trying to get her residency. For my family and I this is the norm. We are strong believers that everyone deserves a second chance in life to better their lives by getting a better education and moving to a place where it is safer and has better opportunities.

Family is important in every culture, it shapes people and makes them who they are.

Everyone has a heritage, where they came from, where they developed into who they are today. Your family stems from your heritage and definitely forms you into the person you become. Barbara Kingsolver goes into depth on the concept of family in her essay, “Stone Soup,”. Throughout this essay, Kingsolver specifies how despite some families have gone through broken places and had to overcomes struggles and had to restructure their life, they are still a family, regardless they are not the common “traditional family” that everyone expects to see. Kingsolver describes how each family is positioned into these “family of dolls” with specific roles for each member and then goes on to explain how the “traditional families” in society put these negative labels and break down “nontraditional families” simply because they are not the same.

Traditions are really important in my family it brings us all together in a fun way. One of my families many traditions is on the Fourth of July we have a big party for my mom’s side of the family. We get together and we have hot dogs, burgers,and chips. We play volleyball, kickball ,and talk till it’s dark then set off fireworks.

It is the idea of who people are and where they came from. Family can influence how a person is brought up in the society of today. When people think of family, usually it is very typical to see one man and one woman with a couple of children. However, this is not the ‘typical family’ as there are families with two dads, two moms, only one parent, families with relatives staying with them, and extended ones with step parents and siblings.

The tradition of Aboriginal family has the sameness to the traditions of my family. Tradition is a belief, principle, or way of acting that people in a particular society or group have continued to follow for a long time. Aboriginal people are the Indigenous People of Canada and the family that I came from are belong to the group of “Igorots” and they are the Indigenous people of the Philippines. Being both Indigenous People of our own country, there’s a common thing about our traditions. In our generation, our parents and the Elders of my family believe that all the members of the family have different part and responsibilities for the clan, that would help one another to build a strong relationship to each other in our community and to

My family has dramatically affected my cultural identity. My parents both grew up in Bethany, so they had adapted to growing up in a small town. I have 4 siblings, but 3 of them are at least 10 years older than me, so I am only used to having one other kid in the house. My family maintains our close relationship by eating dinner together every night. It is a wonderful way to connect and catch up with one another. During the holidays, such as Christmas or Thanksgiving, we have even more

My family is skilled in their customs and traditions because of my great grandparents. Everyone before me has a tradition of being a hard worker, supplier for the family, and never giving up on a task and that is what my parents have installed in me. I know this because I watched my mom as I grew working 3 jobs just to put food on our table and keep the roof over our heads when my father left.

One of these is that on Thanksgiving everybody comes together to my parents’ house in New Jersey for a huge feast. On Christmas only my mother and the children (me and my brother) travel to Illinois to spend a week with my grandparents. On New Years Eve we all get together at my parents’ house in New Jersey and toast to the New Year with champagne and apple cider. During Labor Day weekend all of my family travels to South Jersey to my grandfathers’ condo. We usually spend all of our time on the beach and barbequing, except on Sunday when we go to church. After all, my grandfather is a minister. One of our biggest family traditions is going back to Puerto Rico. Every year my mother and I travel back to Puerto Rico for a portion of our summer vacation. Now that I am older I travel there more often and stay there much longer. My father never joins because he doesn’t like my mothers side of the father too much and he thinks that we when we speak Spanish we are all plotting against him. Of course that’s not true though. My bother doesn’t speak Spanish so he doesn’t like to go either. I guess that tradition is one that belongs solely to my mother and I.

Since my family lived so close together, we had many family traditions that remain important. We gather for nearly every holiday for a meal and routine. For Easter every year, we have an Easter egg hunt and dinner at my grandmother’s house. For Christmas Eve, we always went to my great-grandparents house and had dinner and exchanged gifts. For Christmas, we celebrated at home, and then went to my grandmother's for breakfast with our cousins. The importance of all of the holidays we celebrated was that no matter what was going on in our lives,

Every family has different traditions stemming from their background.My parents come from two significantly different backgrounds. My mother hailed from the slopes of rural Switzerland while my father was a military child growing up in a multitude of places, but mainly, from the East coast. My parents tried to pass on elements of their childhood traditions on to my sister and I. This created a very unique new family tradition which mainly emphasized the values of punctuality, the appreciation of nature, and the importance of democracy.

Ezequiel Pagan  Patrick Williams  English 111  16 October 2014   Family Value and Truth  Family in society is a social structure. Family plays a key role in human life because it can give  people a sense of home, or a loving and supportive group. In most cases when people think of families  they think of having a mom, dad, brother, sister.  However, nothing in life is perfect. Today, we have  separated , same sex, extended, and blended families. Society tries to explain these more contemporary  families but has a harsh way of doing so. In the essay, Stone Soup, by Barbara Kingsolver, she  discusses how society views families and in the essay, Family Values, by Richard Rodriguez, he talks  about American family values. Both

Family means many things to different people, yet the word itself can bring about a host of emotions from anyone who hears the word uttered. As a child growing up in the 60s and 70s the family dynamic was defined by the people we grew up with were related to by blood, and extended to the many family members of the different generations that made up the family unit.

#*Family traditions go beyond culture and religion. Your spouse’s family may also have special traditions like Sunday brunch together or a Christmas Eve feast.