Essay On Cultural Culture

Cultural influences on adapting a new culture and move to a new country create economic and health impacts to immigrant families. According to Brook, the definition of culture is a system of values, beliefs, ways of thinking, routines, rituals, and institutions established by a group or population (p 34). Some cultures between different cities have already had differences, how about two different counties? The value, customs, and tradition are the basic differences that immigrants can easily discover. For example, Asian culture and American culture are two totally different cultures that make Asian immigrant adults have a hard time to get to know the new cultures, moreover, this challenge might be able to influence their entire lives. Immigrant

Tianna’s mom was my classmate that it is easier and flexible for me to observe her, also, I have known Tianna since she was born. Tianna was born in the United States. she lives with her grandparents, two older brothers, and mom. Her father works in China that he comes back to the United States every three months and her mom is a part time students at city college. Her grandparents are retired and most of time they stay home. Her brothers are still young, one is eight years old and the other one is ten, they go to school on weekdays and go to a Chinese school on Saturday. They live in the United States about ten years. With the support from the grandparents and the income from father, the family’s economic is fine. She is from a bilingual family that they speak Cantonese at home because her grandparents do not know any English. From what I have known about Tianna, since her parents are tall, she heritages the advantage that even though she is only 27 months old, she is taller than most of the same ages children. “Between ages two and five, children ‘s brains are active and primed for learning” (p 242). Tianna learns new knowledge very quickly and understands most of what we are talking, but she does not get used to talk with us. “Children progress from having about fifty words at nineteen months to having ten thousand words at age six” (244), however, Tianna does not talk even though she can understand. She can do the basic things such as put the toy on the table, close the door, bring me a towel, and so on. In one situation, she would talk is when she has done wrong, like drawing on her brother’s books, pilling the tissue and through everywhere, brothers blame or yell at her, she might be scared, call “mama”, and run to her mom for help. For a two-year-old child, her cognitive development is on her age, but