The Angulo Family's Lack Of Socialization

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What if you were stuck in your house and never knew how the world communication took place? What if you lost all your socialization skills and had to start from scratch by watching movies? These questions describe a New York City family that did exactly just that. Angulo family had raised their children just in the confinements of their apartment in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Angulo’s head of the family, their father Oscar, had beliefs in a religion called Hare Kristna that made him feel powerful. Necessary to honor his religion, he named all seven of his sons and his one daughter after the god’s ten children: Mukunda, Narayana, Govinda, Bhagavan, Krisna, and Jagadesh, and the daughter Visnu. The oldest, 15 year old Mukunda had changed their family’s way of life by being the first to leave the apartment in January 2010. …show more content…
Through resistance and with the help of movies, the brothers began to venture out together and discover more about the world outside of their home as well as communicate. The Angulo family suffered from a lack of socialization. Socialization teaches children how to act and form an individual’s personality. Although “society makes us human” in this family’s case, society didn’t reflect upon them since they couldn’t engaged with

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