Summary Of Families Accept Often In Silence By Rodriguez

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2. In the essay according to Rodriguez, immigrants newly arrived to the United States do possess a traditional allegiance to family values. Rodriguez reasonable states the Chinese care about their families. In addition, if a family is religious they tend to carry the traditional values about being afraid of their children changing their family value beliefs.
3. In the conclusion the author reflects regarding his homosexuality, ”families accept, often in silence” is an aspect of traditional family values, in my opinion it’s because parents still love their children, but might not want to express their true feelings about their child being a homosexual, therefore they keep quiet to avoid from something going wrong. Nonetheless, parents will stay

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