Personal Worldview Autobiography

In understanding how my worldview was subconsciously constructed by my life experiences from the past nineteen years, I had to first think about my roots. I was born in Tampa, Florida to a Puerto Rican mother and white father. They divorced when I was too young to remember, and while I did have a relationship with my dad, I lived with my mother and was raised in a tight-knit Puerto Rican family, often times being cared for by my grandmother. I was an only child for ten years which I’m sure has impacted my personality, and at ten I got a baby sister whom I am very close to. Growing up in Florida was interesting because I was half white and half Hispanic, which mirror the main demographics of Florida well, but I never quite fit in with either

Most of my friends in Florida were pretty diverse but still had married, college-educated parents, big houses, and went to Christian churches and youth groups. My parents were divorced, my dad has no college degree while my mom was working through her online college degree during my childhood, and we weren’t particularly religious although we would identify more with Christianity than anything else. My family is all perfectly able-bodied aside from my grandmother who has always suffered from diabetes and now early-onset

Still, I see everyday how different my own worldview and experiences are in that my high school friends from Plano are able to go to University in other cities and states without having to worry about loans because they’re from rich white families, while I had the grades to be able to do the same thing but am more careful about money. I see it in how my mom’s male counterparts at her accounting firm make more than her for the same job and are able to be promoted quicker, and I even see it in how different my sister’s childhood is growing up in white Plano than mine was growing up in Hispanic