Kinship Chart Examples

As a person who comes from two different cultural and racial backgrounds, I decided to make my topic of my kinship chart about race. Knowing what it feels like to be half-Sikh and half-Hindu, I am able to get a point of view of both racial perspectives of myself. As my kinship chart shows, my mother is Sikh and my father is Hindu. However, for reasons being, I was taken out of their custody when I was seven years old, along with my younger sister. Thus my grandparents were able to gain custody of us and raise the both of us. In doing so, it created this sense of new parents and labeled them as our official parents.
In doing my kinship chart, bi-lateral descent is used to determine the relationships and generations within my entire family. …show more content…
As Franz Boas points out in his book “In Race and Democratic Society” in the chapter about “Race: Prejudice”, he discusses how everyone criticizes and are quick to think that people can be figured out by easily distinguishing their race. In doing so, many assume that one’s social and economic status can be derived by the simple portrayal of a skin color. I can easily relate to this because I often do not fit in with either culture or race that I identify with. When assimilating with Sikh people and their culture, I am sometimes told that I don’t belong because of my roots and me being Hindu. On the other hand, when I attempt to fit in with Hindus, I am often rejected as well because of my skin color and the basic assumption that I am complete Sikh. Boas goes on to talk about how northern Europeans are known to be tall, blue-eyed and blonde haired people which categorizes anybody within these physical appearances as northern Europeans. However, he also points out that many Italian men fall under this category of appearance, thus making a point that one’s physical traits shouldn’t be the way in which people judge