January 30th

I think the way our family is greatly affected by our social class and who we are surrounded by. I grew up in a very diverse city and went to a diverse school. There were so many different cultures around me I was able to learn and grow as a person by meeting the people I met. But also, with this there are downfalls, around where I grew up there were a lot of Hispanic kids at my school and with this, they didn't always have the best home life. A lot of the kids had family members who were back in Mexico and so they weren't able to have the full family experience like other people.

I also think being in a higher social class can help and hurt your family dynamics. Sometimes when families have more money, they tend to spoil their kids and then the kids never learn to work for themselves and end up getting money from their parents all their lives. Being in a lower social class doesn’t give the parents or kids as many opportunities to get jobs and earn money but also to go out and experience the world. People who don’t have as much money aren’t as able to go on vacation which limits their experience in the world, while people with money can travel the world and see many different cultures.

For my family and I being in the social class that we are in and the environments that we were surrounded by it made us closer, because we saw so many people go through hard times it made us appreciate each other at a different level. I saw that some people didn’t have a dad from a super young age and so it made me appreciate mine while he was here all that much more.

In conclusion I definitely think are social class and the culture around us affects us and our families. That can be for the good and for the bad. Each family has to learn for themselves what type of environment works best for them to have a successful family dynamic and to raise children who know how to live in the world and run their lives in the world. The children they raise can then raise their children the same and we could be able to live a little easier in the crazy world that we are living in today.