Communication Patterns In Family Life

Thailand was where it all happen. My parents had met and got married there. But let 's give a little background. In the Hmong community, it was the norm to have many kids. Having many kids meant they can help you around the house or financially, especially farming crops for food. However, my mother didn 't have the same luxury of having a father as she grew up. Her father had gotten sick when she was young and he passed away. Due to this event my grandma (her mother) remarried. In the older Hmong laws, once a woman is widowed and decides to remarry, the majority of her kids has to be left with her siblings side of the family. That was the case for my mother. She was a foster child, sent off with all her siblings to her aunt’s house.
My father grew up with both his parents. His brothers and him were close and stuck to one another while his youngest sister seemed to carry duties within the house. At a young age, …show more content…
My uncle helped my family assimilate smoothly in Minnesota. I was born in the year 1995 and then my younger sisters were also born each two years apart from one another. Communication Patterns
My father is a man of little words but when he spoke he said many valuable things. My mother is a very loud and speaks her mind on my things. She wears the pants in the relationship and is the most helpful in giving life advice. As a family, we were not close to my father 's side of the family in the beginning of our life in America. But eventually, our connection grew closer with my aunt Xia and Belldandy from my father’s side after the death of my grandpa.
On my mother’s side of the family, everyone in my family had very close relationships with my uncle Van and his family. My cousin 's (mother’s side of the family) were around the same age as us so it was easy to connect with them. When my mother’s step-sister Nyia immigrated to America in 2009 we also developed a strong relationship with