Myself I grew up with a loving father who created a beautiful world for me. For my dad, I was everything he made me feel special, secure, and most of all loved. I had a brother who even though was younger than me was thought to protect me, respect me, and loved me unconditionally. However, things have changed my father passed away and my brother and I had to live with our grandparents because mom had to work to support us. There I was no longer the special, girl, but the only female out four males who was responsible to help with the chores, maintaining the house and providing or served the guys. Ever since I remember I always wanted to become a professional, to have a career to support myself and become independent. I did not want to be
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My family and I come from a very small town in Morelia, Michoacan and school was not really a priority instead we needed to work to survive and support our families. My mother grew up in a very controlled environment so the was what she knew and her only way to protect me was there with her with no exposure to other cultures or other ways of life. In Rury Culture is defined “broadly as the process of cultural transmission” (Rury,, 2013) because is a way of living therefore we must all learned the same process and for my mother that was her process. A school for her meant change and unknown territory and myself becoming independent. Cultural Transmission allows cultural change because new attitudes and behaviors are accepted and my mother did not want change because she did not know better. As naive as we can be Mexicans understand and see that all cultures are not equal, so we must continue to do what we know respect and follow the directions/believes from our parents. Also, in Rury “the concept of cultural capital thus can be linked to the idea of social status. Certain ways of speaking, dressing and conducting oneself, after all, are associated…with greater standing or prominence in the social order” (Rury, 2013). This can relate to my families believes because for them we must always respect elders, dress appropriately (especially girls), and create a well respected social status not in monetary terms but in doing the norm and having family values. My tradition was to grow up respecting my parents by doing everything they said, find a hard working man they approve of, getting married in church, having kids, and maintaining the house. Yet my goal and struggle have been separating myself from family traditions that not longer apply to me and rather than having a close mind be open and aware of
My family and I come from a very small town in Morelia, Michoacan and school was not really a priority instead we needed to work to survive and support our families. My mother grew up in a very controlled environment so the was what she knew and her only way to protect me was there with her with no exposure to other cultures or other ways of life. In Rury Culture is defined “broadly as the process of cultural transmission” (Rury,, 2013) because is a way of living therefore we must all learned the same process and for my mother that was her process. A school for her meant change and unknown territory and myself becoming independent. Cultural Transmission allows cultural change because new attitudes and behaviors are accepted and my mother did not want change because she did not know better. As naive as we can be Mexicans understand and see that all cultures are not equal, so we must continue to do what we know respect and follow the directions/believes from our parents. Also, in Rury “the concept of cultural capital thus can be linked to the idea of social status. Certain ways of speaking, dressing and conducting oneself, after all, are associated…with greater standing or prominence in the social order” (Rury, 2013). This can relate to my families believes because for them we must always respect elders, dress appropriately (especially girls), and create a well respected social status not in monetary terms but in doing the norm and having family values. My tradition was to grow up respecting my parents by doing everything they said, find a hard working man they approve of, getting married in church, having kids, and maintaining the house. Yet my goal and struggle have been separating myself from family traditions that not longer apply to me and rather than having a close mind be open and aware of