In the Sans community the women get married before maturity, and the groom can not consummate his marriage until the bride has fully matured physically and mentally, during this time the groom lives with the bride family and provide brideservice, which means the groom contributes meat to the bride's family band. Since young women are scarce in the San community, due to the fact that the band practices polygny, the groom waits on his bride securing his place with her. In the San marriage divorce is common the bride typically initiate the separation. Divorce is easy in part because there is little division of wealth (Nowak & Laird 2010). In the San
When I was a kid I used to live with my mother and my grandparents, I grew up without knowing my father, but I was happy because my grandparents always bought me everything I wanted, at that time I was the only child at home. Later my Mom got married, and I had two brothers. I learned how to share my toys with them, and I got a stepfather who taught me many good things because he is a good and hard working man. My Mom is lucky. Before I finished the high school, I started to work for a big tools company as a salesman helper (where I learned many new things).
Descending from difficult households, both my parents moved from Mexico to the United States in hopes to build better lives for my brother and I. Living alone in a foreign country has never been easy, however. My parents have built our lives from scratch with no outside family support. When I was young, my dad was always switching from menial job to menial job in hopes of find something better. My mom always helped out as best she could, at times selling coke and candy to neighbors, but her primary concern was always taking care of her children.
Each member of the family plays an important role, allowing them to join together in harmony. The relationships in Navajo society are very strong. Their system is organized in roles and expected role behavior which is used by the whole society. Every role open to man is also open to women leaving little room for economic domination of one partner over the other. The mother is the main provider and authority figure towards the children in the family.
Double burden was also common at the beginning of 1900’s as women worked to earn money but also had the responsibility for unpaid, domestic labor. In large urban cities, like Dublin, London or Paris, prostitution was the only way to survive for some lower class women. Among women, the unmarried individuals had more job opportunities than
! “Three Strikes and your Out.” ! Monday, 3/3 Dan was really looking forward to his opportunity to speak with the town tonight, because he thought out of anyone, he had the best food for thought around the three strike violation in California. This was a monthly meeting that was not uncommon to take place during the evening some time after supper. There were only about, lets say, one hundred and fifty people at these meetings, because the other adults were taking care of there babies because they could not afford a baby sitter.
Before the war, women were treated awfully, and were not allowed to work or make a living for themselves and their families. After World War II, although many women lost their jobs at the factory, they were able to get other jobs elsewhere. Women were able to movie in to jobs in the booming service sector, where there was a great need for employees. They became teachers, nurses, librarians, bank tellers, and social workers. At these jobs women were able to earn just over half of what men earned.
They celebrate the two biggest events in the Tongans life, which is marriage and death. Even though their kids and grandkids are; first, second, or third generation, their parents and grandparents are sure to instill values, and customs that not only they bring from the Pacific Islands, but also their strong family value of no matter the distance of a cousin, or aunt; immediate family is all members of the family. I think if parents could teach their kids any traditional customs from their ethnic background, then we'd have more to share with one another, and possibly be more united because everyone would have something to bring to the "salad" bowl, which may bring a bond between people, or a similarity they never knew they had with others from a
Family is usually at the center of the social structure, so family is very important in our culture. I grew up with Spanish being my first language and I was taught to always speak it formally, especially with my elders. Having a major respect for elders in the Mexican culture is crucial. I remember in school getting stereotyped or prejudged for this by kids. Kids would sometimes call me a “goodie, goodie” for greeting an adult with a handshake or simply being really respectful.
My mom deserves to be called a modern day epic hero just as any other caring mother, or father, because they do whatever it is to care for their own no matter what. For example, Jorge Munoz came to America in the early 80’s and became a citizen in 1987; after witnessing the struggles such as poverty that many of the people living in his city were enduring, he decided to start cooking food to feed dozens of day laborers in Queens. An estimation of more than 70,000 people has been assisted by Munoz since 2004. His operation is financed from the $600 he receives weekly for driving a school bus and donations. On August 4, 2010, Munoz was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Barack Obama.