Italian Families
Italians symbolize a value system organized primarily around protecting the family. I feel that the family is one of the most important elements in our family. My grandparents are full-blooded Italians. My grandparents' parents came over to America from Italy. As I read this article I am learning that my grandparents today believe in the same customs and traditions as our long ago ancestors. Between 1900 and 1910 more than two million Italians, mostly peasants from southern Italy, immigrated to the United States to escape poverty and find a better life. Most of the people that came over from Italy preferred urban living. This pattern was largely influenced by the importance Italians placed on family, neighborhood connections, and relationships where children feel obligated to remain close to aging parents. Many spent their whole lives in the same neighborhood, not even visiting other parts of the city or town. I know this was true with my grandparents and their parents. All of my family lived in the same city and town. Most of my family even lived in the same neighborhood while growing up. Italians took pride in home ownership, not wanting to rent, because this meant that they were dependent on o
Whenever we go on vacation and we are still away on that Sunday my parents find the nearest local church to attend and we fit mass in our vacation of "things to do". My grandfather always gets really angry because he has strong beliefs that no one should touch the food in front of them until everyone is sitting and has said grace together. I am very fortunate to have them in my life to this day. I don't have really anything to say about my dad's parents because both his mother and father died before I was born. Staying close to the family and the neighborhood was another custom that still exists today. My grandmother and mother are incredible cooks. I went to work the other day and I was just having an everyday conversation with one of the other servers at Cracker Barrel. Now that I am older I make my own decisions and one of them is to go to church.
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