Culture Diversity and Social Class

In Families, different cultures have their own traditions and views of family. Culture includes material traits, social forms and culture forms. I think that people generally raise and provide for their kids in a way they know how because they were taught from their parents and grew up in that culture. In my family relations class, we watched this video called, "Tammy's Story" which talked about her social class and how she provides for her family. She also talked about how she was raised in a low class as people would say so she felt comfortable with that I think and didn't want to change from what she was used to. She was at a homeostasis stage and knew what was familiar to her. A lot of people think that being low class means you have no money or low economic status, I think there is more to it than that such as your quality of life and how you live when you don't have much. I also think that where you live and who you surround yourself with shows what kind of class you are in. If we went by economic viewpoint, my husband and I would be considered low class but I think we live in a good place, have a good life, have transportation and are doing our best to live a good life. I think we are doing better than low class. 
In some countries, they have family traditions that are very cultural and different than people comprehend. I was reading about how India has arranged marriages as their family tradition and I know that from my sister in law, who is Portugal, have the first born son have the same name as the father. 

I believe that the family perpetuates the culture because of the rituals you teach and exercise in your home is what your children take from it and make part of their culture because that is what they know and are comfortable with since they grew up in that environment.

Two aspects of my own culture I would like to perpetuate would that I see in my family would be honesty and compassion. My family is very honest and part of that reason is because my mom knew when something was up or if we were hiding something so we always told the truth when we broke something. I also want to be compassionate and loving to my husband and children. I would like to keep that culture tradition going in my family. Two things I want to improve on in my own culture is communication and spending more quality time with family. I believe it is important in a relationship and as a family to have open communication with each other. I think it is ideal in a family where the husband and wife have are very open with each other and the parents and children have a slight boundary, but still are able to communicate well. Ii also think it is important to spend time with each other. My mom was a single parent and growing up she worked a lot and I didn't spend as much quality time with her as I would have liked. I think bonding with each other as a family is important to me and something I would like to have in my future family. I think we develop these cultural forms in how we live now. If we start making a habit of these traits we can make them part of our life and teach what we live in our home. My husband and I are going to perpetuate these traits in our culture and make them part of our family life. 

                                                   This is a picture of me and my husband.