Cultural Identity Assignment

For my assignment I decided to sit down with people of different cultural backgrounds of myself and learn a little about their culture and how they were raised and what their family is like and just information like that. Overall I really enjoyed this assignment and getting to know these three girls better and understanding what their family was like and how it differed from mine own. I also really enjoyed learning about some of the different culture that each of these girls have experienced from growing up in the way and families they did.
The first person I talked to was a girl named Brittney and she grew up in a single parent home in the city and she is African American. She talked about how growing up her mom was not really around since she had three jobs she was juggling and how she was the oldest so she had a lot of extra responsibility of taking care of her younger brother and sister. However, she does not resent her

She said that she was raised like any ordinary American family was except that she has two dads. She talked about how they were both really good dads and loved her a lot and would do anything for her if she asked. She said growing up that they were definitely over protective because of how people are today and that they did not want her to get teased for having two dads. But she said that is not preventable because that’s just how people are today unfortunately. She said she got teased a lot in middle school for having two dads and she said that was really hard because she didn’t know any different and she thought that it was normal and she also told them that you don’t get to choose your parents and I loved that she said that because that is so true! She talked a lot about how when they all go out in public and her dads hold hands or show any type of affection even if it is little that all people do is stare at