Personal Narrative: My Heritage

First of all, it is important that every person is respected and appreciated despite differences. In this program we have four main goals for your child in this area. We will teach in a way that each child will be able to demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, pride in his heritage and culture, as well as teaching them to have positive social identities. Each child should demonstrate comfort and joy in our differences, in human diversity, they will learn appropriate verbiage for human differences, and we will work towards guiding them to make deep, caring human connections.

I am a Native American born and raised in Jamestown, Virginia. It was always just my father and I, my mother passed away when I was an infant, so my father raised me to be an independent woman. My father is the head commander of the tribe. He only allowed me to go to the village near our tents. I never went further than the village, till this one day that I was feeling so curious about what was out there, so I decided to walk beyond the village to see what there is to explore.

Family of origin work begins by having an individual or couple drawing up a "Genogram," a three generational map of family relationships graphically depicting such things as births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and sibling order. The rationale for working directly with patients in this manner is described by prominent family therapist John Framo. "The client, by having sessions with his or her family of origin, takes the problem to where they began, thereby making available a direct route to etiological factions. Dealing with the real external parental figures is designed to loosen the grip of the internal representatives of these figures and expose them to reality considerations and their live derivatives. Having gone backward in time, the

     The focus of our group project is on Chinese Americans. We studied various aspects of their lives and the preservation of their culture in America. The Chinese American population is continually growing. In fact, in 1990, they were the largest group of Asians in the United States (Min 58). But living in America and adjusting to a new way of life is not easy. Many Chinese Americans have faced and continue to face much conflict between their Chinese and American identities. But many times, as they adapt to this new life, they are also able to preserve their Chinese culture and identity through various ways. We studied these things through the viewing of a movie called Joy Luck Club,

It became normal. I started to believe these names. If somebody called out, Tree, I would look around. In the barn scene, Kunta was getting ready to escape, and Fiddler was helping him after he was singing that lullaby. Kunta had asked Fiddler his name, his real name, and I have to admit, that moment was really emotional. Fiddler seemed to come to an understanding of how unbreaking Kunta was. I feel Kunta wasn’t built for a slave, his roots, his mindset, and his resilience wouldn’t allow it. This leads to him escaping, or trying to escape, many times. The first time he was bought by Samson, and the other times, he was caught by dogs. A very disappointing moment for me, because my nerves had built up while he was running, so when he was caught, I was extremely disappointed. It seemed to me, when he was escaping the second time, he was doing it not only for himself, but to Fiddler, and his family. Maybe even Jinna. At the end, where he was losing contact with his parents, was absolutely heartbreaking to me, because he is giving up. He was giving into his new identity, losing his

I am a true country southern bell from Georgia with roots that goes back to the Cherokee tribe. I am the daughter of Beanbug and Mann although they have real names where we are from we do not use them. Beanbug started off working at the chicken house but after gutting chicken for a couple of years she decided to get a degree. This is how I came to be. I come from a more rural area modern time and where I did not have to farm like my grandparents. I know who I am. I am come from a family that would cook Sunday dinner which include fried chicken, mac and cheese, collard greens, cornbread and many more food that sooth the soul. I am a special person that believed to see spirts at night that kept me up. One night I went to my grandmother bed and

Growing up with two different Heritages is like growing up in two different worlds, it was tough growing up being Native and Hispanic I would either get made fun of because I was Native or I was made fun of for being Hispanic. I guess you can say that I have somewhat of a different life, living with any Hispanic family but considering myself more Native, because just at home i just speak spanish, and eat amazing food made by my mother who isn’t even Hispanic who’s just Native American who didn’t consider herself Native American because she herself lived with my grandmother or she lived with a family friend who was Hispanic and showed her things about a culture that she didn’t know anything about.

Recently I took a trip to Nashville, and YES it was so much fun, I learned a lot about my business, met some of my AWESOME business partners, but most of all I got back my Country Roots !

You could ask anyone who knows me personally to tell you one thing about me and I know they will all answer with the same thing. Allison is Irish. Really, really Irish. My Irish heritage is what makes me who I am. From my curly hair to my pale skin and all the freckles in between. Being Irish has always been something that I am proud of. Throughout my life, I have continuously been interested in foreign languages and the history of European countries. I have even begun trying to learn some conversational Gaelic in my spare time. This trip would be the adventure of a lifetime for someone like me who enjoys travel and learning about the world around them.

How does your heritage affect you today? My English heritage doesn’t effect me, but I would like to try some traditions.Those things I would like to try is traditional foods, sports known in England, and religious holidays.

I would contribute to diversity on the NC State campus because I identify as a lesbian and have been out to my community for many years now due to the love and support I have received from my hometown of Wilmington, NC. I try to give back to this wonderful community in whatever way I can, I attend meetings at our local Gay Straight Alliance and Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. I have also scheduled many events that are LGBT+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) inclusive such as a Pride Prom and a transgender visibility Potluck in light of the horrors of House Bill 2. I also consider myself to be a feminist, someone who believes in the equal rights of all genders and I do a lot in the sense of advocacy for gender equality.

Our history is what defines us, shapes us, it is what we have done but doesn't necessarily mean what we are going to do. I was born in Southern California into a Mormon family and I love my life. The moving trucks came when I was five and off we went to the smack-dab-middle of the USA: Kansas City, Missouri. Instead of the ocean we now had corn fields and cows. What a trade! I grew up in the country, which was a dream come true for an adventurous kid like me. I could ride my dirt bike as far as I could see. Wrestling was big in my small town, so at a young age I joined a club team. It is now a near useless sport that I did for ten years. You see, no ones goes to the church tuesday nights to wrestle, but I did lean hard work, patience, and perseverance

My dad says “what’s on the table is what you eat or you don’t eat at all” if we didn’t want what was on the table then we would either have to make our own food or don’t eat at all. My dad thought that if we tried something new we might like it, if we didn’t like it and we tried it my mom or dad would make us something else as long as we tried something new, but if we didn’t try it they would tell us we would have to make our own food or we don’t get to eat at all my grandma and grandpa also say it too.

was important to my parents that I knew my heritage language. Therefore, Spanish was the primary language spoken at home in my adolescent years. English was taught to me as secondary language at an older age. I am able to speak and write in both English and Spanish. But my challenge has been that I speak English with a slight Spanish accent. Throughout the years I been asked; in numerous occasions “Where are you from?”, “Are you from Mexico?”, “How long have you been in this country?” Even been spoken to in Spanish because they assume I can’t speak the language. It can be upsetting and discouraging at times until today. For many years I would practice what I needed when conversing with professors, coworkers, and even friends. I was afraid that

My family heritage starts back when the greek gods had just been made. Prometheus was creating humans and their attributes now he didn’t get it first try. He made like 5 then he made my great ancestor on his 6th try, his 7th was the best one he used, now everything was right with my ancestors but one thing. He pushed my ancestor to the side and didn’t use them. Later the Celtic gods found them and used them in there big group. Now since they had sat there so long they changed to live longer but faced bad late blooming and late life cycle attributes. So they put in my ancestor on earth and he was named Piner Jamieson, why Jamieson you might ask, well Pine is a tree and Celts loved their plants and nature. But Jamieson is a Scottish word for overtaking government, but as