Cultural Differences In Family Culture

All over the world are various cultures that have been formed over generations and generations thus creating drastically different families. The word culture refers to what a particular collective group of people share in common that distinguish them from other collectives or cultures pg 4. In these cultures, there are underlying values and beliefs shared by the group that distinguishes them from other different cultures. When studying different cultures around the world some of them will have some commonalities with each other, but most of these are strikingly different. All of these similarities and differences depend on various things such as resources, location, climate, economy, availability, accessibility, etc. All of these things …show more content…
While the marriage rates continued to decrease, the birthrates were also impacted in Romania. In 1996, estimated birthrate was 10.2 births per 1,000 inhabitants, the lowest recorded in Romanian peacetime pg.100. These declining rates seem to come from the avoidance or delay of couples choosing to have a second child. Now women are becoming more active in the workforce and pursing educations so this has a huge impact on the number of births. These women choosing to purse an education or career often times wait to have children much later in life than they did before in recent decades. In Sweden at the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s, there were decreasing birthrates that were reaching record lows just as other Western countries pg.49. The Sweden government noticed this decline and decided to step in and provide incentives to increase the Sweden race. Each state would offer women a certain amount of money until the child reach sixteen years old 50. Also families could receive things such as housing subsidies. After this the birthrates increased for sometime, but then again began to drop overtime. The entire Sweden population is continuing to decline and has greatly impacted the …show more content…
I believe there are several things overtime that have influenced these cultures beliefs and values. These are displayed when comparing and contrasting the families in context, marriage views and beliefs, and also children and birthrates in both of these cultures. Both of these cultures bring about important aspects of life to its people and the surrounding places. Over several decades, many of the traditions and values have changed overtime as these cultures continue to evolve. I think when researching both Romania and Sweden it was interesting to learn how much these places had drastically changed almost everything. As time goes on these cultures will continue to change and