Personal Narrative: My Cultural Expectations Of Cultural Adaptation

Adaptation and Acculturation weighed heavily on my cultural expectations. Belonging to immigrant parents in their notion on child rearing created uncertainty for my “Americanized” views. Belonging to mix ancestry, did not seem to help either. My mother is of East Indian ancestry while my father is of African ancestry. My household was headed by my mother. My father usually worked long hours and was the family’s breadwinner. My mother was a stay at home mom so her child rearing views were particularly more dominant towards East Indian conviction on parenting. My cultural expectations were prevalent during my adolescent years which created many intergenerational conflicts. My mother tends to be more removed from the culture of the US. She always wanted to maintain her native ideologies, values, religious beliefs and to maintain a distinct ethnic and

Human capital corresponds to any stock of knowledge or characteristics of the worker has (either innate or acquired) that contributes to his or her “productivity”. My parents strongly believed that human capital is vital in society. From the beginning of my education journey they have invested in my education with the idea that my skills will garner a productive future and a better lifestyle and contribute to our economy. Without investments made by individuals by the government and businesses, people may not have the opportunities to grow and better themselves. The advantages are clear: it enables us to think of not only the years of schooling, but also of a variety of other characteristics as part of human capital investments. These include school quality, training, attitudes towards work, etc. Us- in this type of reasoning, we can make some progress towards understanding some of the differences in earnings across workers that are not accounted by schooling differences