My Family Diversity

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My family tree is truly one that is filled with much diversity. My family has so many different types of nationalities that really shocks me when i began to interview my parents and grandparents.I found a decent amount of info on my mothers side regarding my moms side grandfather and mother and even my great grand father and mother. My dads side didn 't really have much but i could found a decent amount of info on what gives me such diversity in my ethnicity. To start my great grandmother on my moms side was full dominican. My mom only remembers so little about her because of how young she was when she had passed. we are not sure what her madian name was but her name was Virgina Morgan. she did not speak any english which made it extremely …show more content…
When looking at the diversity in my DNA you can see i am quite diverse with many types of backgrounds such as german, russian, dominican,irish,polish, and honestly so many more that I 'm not even probably aware of. Most of my family for gernations has gone into blue collar work that is helping people. both my grand mothers and mother went into nursing while i pursue a law enforcement styled career which my grandfather Ben had taken as well. I am one of four witch i would consider relatively a big family. my dad is the only one who had a bigger family which he was one of five. Now as i grow older and start planning my future i do not want many kids and would gladly settle for two. I would say education was relatively big amongst the woman in my family who all had gone to some kind of school after high school to become nurses and most of the men went into fields with there hands. my father was the only one to actually get a BA degree from a college. The other men either went to the police academy or joined a union. besides my moms parents nobody else in my family line including aunts and uncle have gotten a divorce. We definitely throw off the statistic because divorce today is above 50%. I really feel like i have a bright future with such a interesting combination of ethnicity and culture and appreciation for different types of religion. I truly feel with all the chaos going on today being a mix gives me an edge and the ability to see things from different view pints just like my grandmother and grandfather accepted echoers religion at a time when that was very

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