“Graver” Traveling without acceptance isn’t the key to cultural diversity. Meaning that traveling, while being one of the strongest ways of achieving cultural diversity is not foolproof, unless you have acceptance. My life is a plane on a long journey that I’m always traveling on. “Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.” -William Sloane Coffin Jr. Proving that diversity is needed when striving to achieve a culturally diverse world. In my culture many things are important, some of those things would include traditions, traveling, and our mixture of the families, "Graver"! Traditions- the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation,
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In my years of traveling and moving to new states to live in, I’ve learned that having the attribute of accepting others, is definitely needed, as one who does not, has a hard time of making new friends. This internelizingly strong charge of accepting others can create a whole new world around a person for the rest of their lives. I have attended 5 different schools and lived in 8 different states. Most parents, including my own, wondered while I was young if I would enjoy moving. Expecting a no, I said yes because I had joy in creating new friends at new schools, even though I was missing the other friends I had already created. This wasn’t ever a problem, I only really started worrying about this in my current years of life, during high school. I was worried that I may have to move in the middle of …show more content…
In my family, I would consider it to be a complicated one, but that all depends on who I’m comparing ours with. My family is comprised of two “sub-families” to create one large family. The two “sub-families” are the one with the blonde hair and blue eyes, the Greene family, and the one with the brown hair and brown eyes, the Shaver family. In actuality, I have four parents, meaning I have two families I originate from, but I believe the word family means the people who care and love for you, and all four of my parents do just that, so I would never not consider any of my parents not one of the four I love. So when my father married my step-mother, the “Graver” family was born, and I was excited about this, or at least I believe so, it meant I got a new older brother and a new sister as well, while this did happen approximately twelve years ago, I still appreciate it today. “Family, like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.” -Anonymous. My tree, our tree, grows in many different directions, while adding branches, and trimming some off as well, it may not be perfect but, it works, and I will always know that we come from one root, one seed, one
In my years of traveling and moving to new states to live in, I’ve learned that having the attribute of accepting others, is definitely needed, as one who does not, has a hard time of making new friends. This internelizingly strong charge of accepting others can create a whole new world around a person for the rest of their lives. I have attended 5 different schools and lived in 8 different states. Most parents, including my own, wondered while I was young if I would enjoy moving. Expecting a no, I said yes because I had joy in creating new friends at new schools, even though I was missing the other friends I had already created. This wasn’t ever a problem, I only really started worrying about this in my current years of life, during high school. I was worried that I may have to move in the middle of …show more content…
In my family, I would consider it to be a complicated one, but that all depends on who I’m comparing ours with. My family is comprised of two “sub-families” to create one large family. The two “sub-families” are the one with the blonde hair and blue eyes, the Greene family, and the one with the brown hair and brown eyes, the Shaver family. In actuality, I have four parents, meaning I have two families I originate from, but I believe the word family means the people who care and love for you, and all four of my parents do just that, so I would never not consider any of my parents not one of the four I love. So when my father married my step-mother, the “Graver” family was born, and I was excited about this, or at least I believe so, it meant I got a new older brother and a new sister as well, while this did happen approximately twelve years ago, I still appreciate it today. “Family, like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.” -Anonymous. My tree, our tree, grows in many different directions, while adding branches, and trimming some off as well, it may not be perfect but, it works, and I will always know that we come from one root, one seed, one