Multicultural Children Essay

There are interesting observations about the resembling and opposing ways children in multicultural, bilingual families, and that of children in traditional southern American family’s experience childhood. Things that at first do not seem obvious, but once mentioned, can be distinguished as relatively equivalent or separate distinct viewpoints. Although children raised in multicultural, bilingual families appear to resemble children raised in traditional southern American families, they are quite diverse in the aspects of their home lives, religious beliefs and customs. In traditional southern American households, the children often have home responsibilities such as household chores. The multicultural, bilingual Hispanic children …show more content…
The traditional southern American family's children celebrate Christmas whether they believe in Santa Claus or only that it is Jesus's birth. They decorate Christmas trees, hang lights, and fill stockings with goodies. Meanwhile, the Hispanic multicultural, bilingual family's children not only celebrate Christmas, but also believe in the Los Tres Reyes (the three Kings) who are the ones that visited the baby Jesus, so they left out their shoes in hopes that the Reyes will leave fruit in them and presents beside them. They celebrate Los Tres Reyes in January. Instead of only having the traditional Christmas turkey and ham along with dressing, gravy, and all the fixings. Hispanic children in multicultural, bilingual families also enjoy the custom of making tamales, mole, pozole and Pastel de Tres leche (three milk cake) that is part of their Hispanic culture. Just as the traditional southern American family's children and Hispanic family's children celebrate Halloween, the Hispanic families also celebrate De Los Muertos (day of the dead) which is November the second. As seen here in this essay, the children from traditional southern American families and multicultural, bilingual families have many diverse aspects of life. The multicultural, bilingual family has more home responsibilities than the traditional southern American households. The two families also have different religious paths, but they both serve Jesus Christ. Although the two families share the same holiday customs, they also have their distinct traditions they follow. The two families might seem to obtain some of the same qualities, but they are uniquely diverse in many