For me this is hard, I am a white girl that grew up with food on the table, parents that worked hard, I go to college and I'm not fighting my way through, my parents are helping (THANKFULLY!), so I would say I am well off... however I would never pay $100 for a pair of pants and I think I have only ever owned 2 things from Hollister and one of those things was perfume. I know once I get married I won't be able to live the same lifestyle I grew up living. I guess the point I am getting to is my family is upper-middle class. Sounds weird putting it out there.
Another description that my professor had me throw out there is the definition of my culture and it needed to be more than a one word description. Here is my rough sketch of what I feel my culture is. My culture is very family oriented, that would be because that is were it was born. In my home kind words are rarely said, but when they are you know that they are truthful. I see how my culture is changing now that my life is joining another, I say kind words more often, I tease less often. I see things in a more positive light and less of a pessimistic light. The values I have are because of how I was raised. I grew up going to church learning of Christ, because of that I think about Him often and when I make decisions I turn to the Lord for His help. My culture the people I surround myself with and the holidays I celebrate are all there because of how I was raised. We get to choose which aspects to take from what we had growing up to continue with that tradition or to change to make it better for yourself.
So people what is your culture? What is your status?
My culture is family. Tho I may not have always known where my food was coming from or where I was going to sleep that night, it has always been first and foremost family. My mom even when we had no money for gas would arrange a way for us to get to my grandparents house for Sunday dinner. We always prided ourselves on the fact that family was always first! And when my mom had a hard time with life, my older sister was right there by our sides being "mommy #2". She is to this day still the one person, here on earth that I strive to be like.
ReplyDeleteWhen people think of Mexican's it's somewhere along the lines, "Gangser?" "Illegal alien?" "think he paid for those shoes?" And while sometimes that may not be too far off, (really hope I am not offending anyone here). Honestly we very much pride ourselves on our family and staying close to one another and always being there for one another no matter what. This is what I hope to instill into my children.
So my status, is basically the same, Family. As you know we are working on expanding our family right now and we hope to get a new baby soon, but if not, we have two of the most amazing children ever and we couldn't love them more. We are just living life and trying to do what the Lord has asked us to do.
I love you Hannah and you are the best auntie, thank you for loving our girls so much, and I promise to return the gesture when the time comes!
Hannah! I didn't know youre getting married?! Oh how much I miss when I don't live in Rexburg. Well congrats!!!!! I honestly didn't really read this post at all, because I'm so jazzed about the fact that you're getting married. So then I tried to facebook stalk you..but were are not friends, or you don't have a facebook or something. haha Anyways I want to see pictures of this man of yours?!
ReplyDeleteanyways. Congrats