Family Practices and Simple Gestures
Families have different practices and traditions that make them to unique from each other. Activities, objects, or stories, become meaningful to members of these groups, that otherwise would be meaningless to anyone else. Being a part of a family does not always mean you realize that these customs are unique to your group either, because they are sometimes things innately learned for you to fit into that group. In the second chapter of Living Folklore, by MARTHA, family stories are said to be something that can define these groups. Stories that are important and told repeatedly by different members to one another, from the current time decade, or dating back to the origin of the bloodline. These stories can give more detail into who the group is, a look into their folklore that explains more than simply where they came from.
Though my legal …show more content…
In the region of Brittany today, the language Breton is still spoken. After further research on CNN in Bretons fight to save language from extinction, I found that less than 250,000 people still speak this language, compared to the nearly one million who spoke Breton in the early 1900’s. According to my great grandparents, who were born in the 1930’s, the Bretons emigrated to Canada in the Quebec region, before migrating south to what is currently the state of Maine. Members of the Breton family continue to a part of the Catholic Church in Brittany, along with carrying these beliefs over seas to Quebec, and down to Maine. In my family the tradition of going to Sunday mass was something that defined the week up until my mother’s generation. The origins of the Breton name date back hundreds of years ago, across the world, but these are not the things that define my family today. The Christmas Eve party at my great grandmother’s home, defines my family. My grandmother waving
Families have different practices and traditions that make them to unique from each other. Activities, objects, or stories, become meaningful to members of these groups, that otherwise would be meaningless to anyone else. Being a part of a family does not always mean you realize that these customs are unique to your group either, because they are sometimes things innately learned for you to fit into that group. In the second chapter of Living Folklore, by MARTHA, family stories are said to be something that can define these groups. Stories that are important and told repeatedly by different members to one another, from the current time decade, or dating back to the origin of the bloodline. These stories can give more detail into who the group is, a look into their folklore that explains more than simply where they came from.
Though my legal …show more content…
In the region of Brittany today, the language Breton is still spoken. After further research on CNN in Bretons fight to save language from extinction, I found that less than 250,000 people still speak this language, compared to the nearly one million who spoke Breton in the early 1900’s. According to my great grandparents, who were born in the 1930’s, the Bretons emigrated to Canada in the Quebec region, before migrating south to what is currently the state of Maine. Members of the Breton family continue to a part of the Catholic Church in Brittany, along with carrying these beliefs over seas to Quebec, and down to Maine. In my family the tradition of going to Sunday mass was something that defined the week up until my mother’s generation. The origins of the Breton name date back hundreds of years ago, across the world, but these are not the things that define my family today. The Christmas Eve party at my great grandmother’s home, defines my family. My grandmother waving