My Family Culture

       Three things I value and would represent my family culture:  my family album, my childhood toy, and my childhood storybook.

       My family album contains my childhood photos, plus photos of my daughter, parents and siblings.  These photos captured many moments of my family’s emotions, happiness, and things that we valued.  They expressed our likes and dislikes, points of views, attitudes towards life events.  My childhood toy—a cloth puppet, represents things that my family used to provide for my siblings and me to play in our childhood.  Last but not least is a copy of my childhood storybook that my parents selected for me.  This storybook has many moral values that my parents upheld and wanted me to keep.

        Living permanently in a foreign country, which has a culture that is different from my own, would be very challenging physically and emotionally.  Hence, I would be sad and feel some lost of identity and connectedness if I could only keep one item and have to give up the other items when living in the country. 

        Each country, each society, each family, and each of us has a culture that is diverse from others.  The diverse cultures that we interact daily influence our personal life, our values and behaviors towards others.  These cultures give us a sense of identity and connectedness, impacting and supporting us socially and emotionally.