Families

Before reading the article Diversity in U.S. Families, I thought that most families around the world were more or less the same. This is true in the sense that most families are close knit and very loving and caring. But after reading more into the article, more different cultures do very different things in and with their families. Some families rely on the father figure as being the sole provider of the family, and others rely more on the mother figure as being the individual who brings home the bread. This is not true for all families, because in modern society, both parents may work and/or take care of the children and household chores. In Asian American families, they highly value their discipline and respect for their elders. Latino families are the largest growing population of families in the United states, and they often differ by the multiple Latino cultures that they are broken into. It is easy for me to relate to this article because I live in a very diverse neighborhood. In Queens New York, so many different cultures live in a tight knit area. In bayside for example, my neighbors are Irish, Columbian, Dominican, Asian, middle eastern and white. This is good because living like this, individuals get a strong sense of other cultures and they can understand how other people in different cultures think and how they do things.