Blog Assignment: My Family Culture

This is hard for me to choose three items that represent my family culture, because for me there is nothing physical that says what my culture is. For me culture is carried in; believes, our traditions, our customs, our language, our family expectations. This is really self explanatory, I am from Puerto Rico and my husband is from Ecuador, both of our family traditions, believes, customs, language, and everything else that I mentioned are imprinted in our personal identities.

When I was a child it was hard for my personal identity trying to keep who I am because we moved from Puerto Rico to Florida. The transition was hard because of the language barrier, believes, and tradition changes. I was not allowed to speak my own language in class, and some of our traditions began to fade because they are not practiced in the U.S. For example; The Three Kings Celebration, where the children gathered grass placed it in a shoe box and put it under the bed with a bowl of water for the camels, the three kings will leave a gift for each child.