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    I come from a relatively normal Swiss family. I was born and raised in the southern part of Switzerland, right in between of the Swiss Alps. My dad was married a first time when he was twenty years old and got two children. When he was forty-four, he met my mother who was “only” twenty-five years old. They had me about a year after their wedding and my brother arrived six years later. They had a happy marriage but after fifteen years, I guess the age difference was too big for both of them and…

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    In a first generation American household, originally from Italy, family dinner is more than a custom. It is a lifestyle. At six o’clock, every night, dinner is placed on the table, the children descend from upstairs, and are expected to sit down, and enjoy dinner all together. When food was not tasted, no matter how healthy it was, or exotic it sounded, a child could not excuse themselves from the table. The motto was, “Don’t knock it before you try it.” This open mindedness stems from the food…

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    The movie on the “Two American Families”, which are the Neumann’s and Stanley’s, is a biography of two “middle class” families living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin who had struggled through early 1990 and the Great Recession in 2008. The movie made it known that American’s economy at that time was experiencing hardship because of the change in free-market capitalism and international influence. Tony and Terry Neumann experienced great financial hardships. The Neumann’s family met in high school and…

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    Problems such as death, poverty, and alcoholism are affecting Native American families in the Reservation. These major problems are because of the US Government's broken promise. Native American’s were promised health care, education, and housing by the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie. Native Americans have lost hope of ever escaping these major problems. Losing hope is something many Native Americans try not to do so they can help their families. Poverty on the reservation has led to many…

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    I was never raised in that normal American family. My family was different compared to every other family in America. I’ve always envied the kids who would speak English to parents who could fully understand it. Instead, I was born into a family that had trouble reading, writing, and understanding the language of the country they decided to live in. My earliest recollection of being different was when I was that new kid in middle school. Everyone stared at me like I was that shiny, brand…

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    Outline (Un)Modern Family: Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, the Myth of the U.S.-Colombiana, and the Quest for Belonging I. Introduction (1 page) II. What is a “Modern Family”? (2 pages) A. “Family as modern “ 1. The idea of multiplicity (gender, racial, ethnic, etc.) as a form of modernity 2. Categorizing family members through their identity to check the boxes for being a modern family a. Gloria fits neatly in to the package of the “sexy Latina” who is the unexpectedly expected second wife and…

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    America, it raises a question, are American families in trouble? Divorce used to be something that was shunned, but now it has become generally accepted by society because of how often people go through divorce. Now in America a divorce occurs nearly two thousand four hundred times per day. This statistic is growing year by year, and leaves me to wonder why it is increasing so much. The articles I read on this matter shed light on the question “Is the American Family in Trouble?”. The yes…

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    Asian Americans have received the least unequal treatment by law enforcement. One reason that they have been so well received in the United States is that they have the image of being the model minority (McNamara & Burns, 2009). The have consistently been underrepresented in crime statistics and are viewed as a hard working group that fits well with the majority (McNamara & Burns, 2009). Asian Americans hold values which are in line with traditional American family values. They value family,…

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    Case Analysis From a multicultural perspective, African Americans value family and religion. I believe this comes from the early African American family values from the “slavery days” because our ancestors had to endure and tolerate a lot of hard work, hardship, discrimination, and mistreatment. Because of this, they heavily relied on prayer and each other just to make it through each day. For most African American families, valuing family and religion still exists and many households, but…

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    very young. His family, including his extended family was planning on getting their visa, and becoming U.S Citizens. His grandpa was the one who was applying for the whole family, but sadly he passed away, and everything they had been working on got swept away. Louis, and his mom went back to Mexico for a couple more…

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