My Family Cultural Background

My family cultural background is Hispanic. I will give a brief history on my parent’s childhood and how they strived to make my life a better experience than they had. I am saddened by the memories that have been shared with me, but if gave me a better understanding of why my parents did what they did during my childhood. Now as an adult I understand why my parents strived to give me experiences they never had that were both positive and nurtuing. Both my parents and I were born in the United States, but the type of life style my parentes experienced were completely different from each other. My father was the youngest of 8 children; they were a very poor family with no stable home or income to provide for the large family. For the first 5 years of my father’s life his home was a tent that was near the current fields the family was working at. The family worked together as migrant …show more content…
I have always considered myself an only child because of the large age gap between us. However, I did look up to my sister when I was growing up. As a child my parent’s made sure that there was a stable home that was warm in the winter and cool in the summer. There was enough food to feed us until we were busting out of our seams of our pants. I was able to experince yearly vacations to Disneyland until I was in my early 20’s. Both my parents’ were very involved with my education and when I played sports. Overall, I can say I had an awesome childhood. I’m not going to say it was a Beaver Cleaver home all the time, but it was a happy home, which provided good morals, and ethics that I would be able to use throughout my life. My parent’s made sure to introduce religion into my life when I was very young. I can’t say I enjoyed those Sunday’s attending the old style Catholic services, but the payoff was a donut for