Identifying Characteristics Of Me

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Many things make up who I am. I have many unique identifying characteristics. For example, you can identify me with my ethnicity, family background, gender, etc. Me and my brother were born in Muscat, Oman, which is the capital of a country next to Yemen and under Saudi Arabia. The rest of my family is from India. To be more precise, we are from a coastal state in south India called Kerala, otherwise known as God’s Own Country. Kerala is hands down, by far, my favorite place in the World. That is mainly because the rest of my family lives here. We moved from Kerala to America on September 4th, 2006 in pursuit of success and my mother’s nursing career, which she has been successful in. The majority of Kerala, including our family, is Hindu. …show more content…
We pray every night before we got to sleep, but we do not go to the Temple as often as we would like to, compared to the rest of our family in India who go everyday. In Kerala, we have a lot of traditions which include a lot of dance, art, and …show more content…
When we came to America, my father couldn’t find another job, and my mother started working for Duke University Hospital. To this date, she continues to work their today, and my father is still looking for a job. This is because of the education and area where each of my parents grew up in. Education in my father’s birthplace wasn’t good, while education in my mother’s birthplace was good. My mother went to college while my father didn’t because of this. If my family hadn’t moved to America, my father wouldn’t have lost his job in India. I have been designing for 5 years and developed this skill continuously and have gotten many opportunities to work. The designs I make relate to sports design, so the work I get assigned to do are mostly for college athletes. As a sports and arts fan, this has been an experience. I also, like I stated before, work at Harris Teeter and that is so that I can get a feel for an actual workplace so I can better ready myself for the future. In the future I plan to pick up mechanical or aeronautical engineering, or design for a sports franchise. My family comes from a rather traditional Indian family, where arranged marriages aren’t uncommon. In the traditional Indian household, the husband is supposed to do most of the work outside of the house and bring in most of the income for the household. In India, finding a homosexual

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