Cultural Diversity
In a society such as ours, during a new millennium, culture and lifestyles vary to the extreme. All across the world, there are many different cultures, and many of these people with different cultures live in the United States. Sometimes, I think we catch ourselves being close-minded about other religions and cultures, because of the way we believe or the way we've been raised by our parents. In most cases the values and beliefs that are held by ones parents have an impact on their children's values and beliefs as well. I am going to look further into the lifestyle of another individual different from me, as impacted by an individual's development and growth. I will determine how different races, religions, and cultures have affected this individual, and compare and contrast her culture from mine. My interview was with Mary, a 19-year-old female who lives at home and attends college. She is single, with no children and still lives at home with her parents. Mary was born in India, where she lived for twelve years. At the age of two, Mary's father moved to the United States for poverty issues, to make a better life for his family. Mary tells me in India, there were no hospitals really close by,
As far as sexual relationships, Mary has never been sexually active. Mary says that she was never into peer groups. It was going to be a total different experience. Mary was going to have to learn American customs, what kind of clothes to wear, and how to learn to speak the English language. Although you may not want to, go to church and give God a chance because He is why you are here. People ignored her when she first moved to the United States so she had a very low self-esteem and hardly ever wanted to go to school. Eventually some parents end up committing suicide, Mary says. I know we can't see God, but if we truly believe then you'll realize what a great God he is. In America she can actually talk to a guy and have a conversation with him, but rules are still the same as in India. By the time high school came, she started feeling a lot more comfortable with herself. Mary's culture is much different from ours in America. She feels that by high school this is why she was a very well liked person. Her self-evaluation of herself was very low.
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