Personal Essay: Family Influence In The United States

The moment we are born the family influence begins to impact our thought process. A child is like a sponge that absorbs ideas and beliefs. Beliefs are taught to a child in subtle ways such as listening to the parents and their opinions from everything including politics, social problems. It is within the family that a person learns their moral values. It is from their parents that a child is taught right and wrong. Everybody believes in something such as religion, marriage, faith, after-life etc. We as human have a lot different beliefs some are same and some are different. But that is what makes us unique from each other. I believe in human rights, freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Imagine the world where people are equal. Where …show more content…
People in the United States take pride in living in a country that is known as the land of freedom. I believe that a person should be able to say whatever they want to say to express their thoughts and feeling but in some countries, you cannot do that. For example, if you talk against the government in countries like China, India and in many other countries the government officials can arrest you. When I was ten years old I saw in the news that a group of people in India was protesting the government because they though the government did not care about the poor people. The government gave more freedom to the rich people by letting their sons and daughters go to public school where it should really be for the poor people. The police thought those people were violating the law by talking against the government, so the police told those people that if they do not stop protesting they would all get arrested. They next day when they came back to protest again the police arrested all those people. But this should have never happened those people because they were just simply trying to tell the government that what they were doing was not