My Ethnic And Cultural Background Of My Family

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Ethnic/Cultural background of my family:

As my genogram illustrates, my family is of the Italian descent. I mainly received these traits from my mother. My ancestors on my mother’s side are primarily descendants from Italy, Germany, and Austria. My grandmother was actually born and raised in Italy and then later in life moved to Germany. Even though I myself am only monolingual my mother is trilingual and has tried to teach my brothers and I some of the language because it is part of who we are today. I did have an opportunity in High School to take Italian. I did decide however to forego this opportunity and took Spanish instead because I believed that was better for me to take and for my future career choices. However, I do sometimes regret not taking Italian just because that is part of who I am and I would love to learn the language. My family values the traditions of having big family …show more content…

I would say that being outgoing and funny have to do a lot with my age right now. I am more outgoing now that I am a college student and with coming to a new school you have to be more outgoing to meet more people, and really enjoy making new friends. With that being funny is another thing that I believe comes with age. It’s always fun to be able to tell a joke and have your friends laugh. Being outgoing and funny are things that always will continue to grow through time though. I think that my determined and challenging characteristics definitely come from my ethnic background. Italians are very well known to argue their way through things and never let down a good challenge and are determined to complete it. I have been this way my entire life I will try my absolute hardest at anything I want to achieve just due to being so determined. These are features of my personality that I will carry through my life and they make me who I am today, and who I will be in the

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