My Background Has Shaped Me Analysis

My family and my background has shaped me to be the person I am. I am the daughter of two immigrants and they have inspired me to be a strong and keep persevering to achieve my goals. My father got into a university, my parents lived through Apartheid South Africa, and them becoming immigrant family. These three major events that my parents went through has shaped me and made me the person who I am. I am someone who does not judge on what is on the outside, someone who works to achieve my dreams, and someone who can change to a completely different place and culture.
The first major event of my parents’ lives that changed me life was when my father got accepted into a University. This was something big because my father came from a poor family, and he was the first generation to complete college on his side of the family. Everyone in the family helped by giving what little they could to make sure that my father made it and made something of himself. When I was younger and my father told me this story, he told me something that stuck with me and has been a factor in shaping me, I wanted to be better than my father, and he wanted me to be better than him. This always pushed me to try my hardest, take the honors and AP classes, striving to be first clarinet, and getting the highest …show more content…
This impacted me because it taught me to not judge people on things like race, sexual orientation, or religion. The people who I have grown to trust and care about are those who others deem different and weird, and those changed my life because I did not judge them when we first met. Because my parents lived through such a divided time, they gave me a reason to not judge people by their outside qualities, but by who they are on the