Diversity In Family

Perhaps the biggest problem facing large families is that people who would not like each other by any other means are put in a situation where they have to love and look out for each other. Furthermore, we are all so diverse and forced to live with one another and accept that diversity. On tv shows, brothers and sisters look different due to the fact that they are played by actors, but they act very similar because each and every word they say is scripted. In reality, siblings look the same, but harbor different personas that dictate their actions. Anybody who has a sibling under the age of 7, was once under the age of 7, or even just knows anything about the way children under the age of 7 work, understands that a house can go from …show more content…
There is not enough paper in the world for me to effectively explain how ridiculously important dibs were to the proper running of our household. In an attempt to shed even a glimmer of light onto the oh-so-holy dibs, allow me to explain a little story. One August, my parents announced that we were going to Oklahoma to visit our family for Christmas. Before anything else, we all erupted in a harmonious “First dibs on where I sit on the way there! Final!” (the use of the word final as a rule was amended presumably when my oldest sister didn’t get her way so she altered the criteria in her favor). While dibs caused more civil wars in our household than anything else, it probably saved us from many more potentially worse situations. It is not without fail, but dibs allowed us to decide things without having to revert to a hierarchy within our …show more content…
In response to this, my next oldest brother faked tears after opening his next gift, prompting a huge fight. Neither one could understand the other’s reaction since they are both so different. In your typical relationship, differences are the driving force that make you say “I enjoy this person’s company”, making them an essential part of choosing the people you surround yourself with. However, as previously stated, we do not choose our siblings. If we did, I can promise you I wouldn’t have seven of them. Interestingly enough, though, most people do love their siblings, no matter how many times they are rude to them, or “screw them out of using the car”, or hit or fight and, most importantly, despite all of their differences. I say that sparingly though, because it isn’t really despite our differences that we love each other, but rather through them. My second oldest brother is, in my opinion, a robot. I have rarely seen him display legitimate feelings and whenever I make a joke, no matter how funny, he tries his darndest to do an obnoxious fake laugh. I wouldn’t have it any other way, though. I don’t love my brother and tolerate the things about him that aren’t the same. I love my brother and the things about him that aren’t the same. My advice to anyone with brothers or sisters is that anyone is whatever you perceive