Thesis Statement For Cultural Immersion

Thesis Statement: The purpose of this paper is to write a cultural immersion experience. For the purpose of this paper, a cultural immersion experience will be defined as, “conducting observations to gain more knowledge about a different culture.” The subject of this paper is Christine Smith. Christine is a 29-year-old lesbian parenting a 11-year-old boy. The goal of this paper is to evaluate if there is a difference in homosexual parent and heterosexual parenting.

Introduction:

When I read the instructions for this assignment, I became overwhelmed. The thoughts of writing a cultural immersion experience frightened me. Until now, I did not know what a cultural immersion experience was. That is why I felt overwhelmed and anxious. After

Smith is a Certified Recovery Support Specialist at the Bridge, Inc., a substance abuse treatment facility for adolescents. I was not able to conduct the interview due to her busyness at work. However, I was able to experience some of Smith’s parenting technics firsthand. Which was a good experience. I did not have my car at the moment. Due to my situation, Smith offered drive me to my car. Smith and I departed from her job at 8:00PM to pick up her son. He was at her mother’s home. Smith’s son name is Aaron Charles Cooper-Bell Jr. Smith formally introduced me to her son. As Smith drove, I sat in the passenger seat and listened to the conversation she had with Aaron. The conversation was a lot of insight to Smith’s parenting skills. She is a very stern mother; however, she seemed to be very relaxed as well. The conversation was about Aaron having testing at school currently. Aaron took a reading test earlier that day and Smith was concerned if he did well on the test. Aaron stated, “I think I did good, but I could have done better.” Smith responded, “why do you feel this way?” Aaron explained to Smith that baseball is interrupting with his studying and homework. This is when Smith exhibited her unique parenting skills. She advised Aaron that school is more important than baseball. Smith stated, “I want you to tell me when you feel something is interfering with school.

Once again, I was planned to interview Smith. However, that was not success. Instead, Smith and I spoke about life stories over lunch. We ate lunch at Sonics. While driving to Sonic, we engaged in a conversation about Smith’s working environment. Smith and a co-worker were having some issues. Shockingly, this conversation lead to us talking about Smith’s childhood. Smith was raised by her grandparents. This is something we have in common. Smith did not have a good relationship with her mother. However, her relationship with her father is decent. As we converse, Smith explained why her grandparents raised her. Also, she explained why her relationship with her mother is poor. Smith was raped as a child. The story about Smith being raped was detailed. Smith was raped at her aunt’s birthday party. After the birthday party, Smith started cleaning her aunt’s trailer. Her aunt was heavily intoxicated. After cleaning, Smith heard her aunt’s boyfriend call her name. She went to check on he wanted. Christine found the boyfriend standing bedroom naked. The aunt’s boyfriend stated, “come here.” Smith refused. The aunt’s boyfriend grabbed Smith & threw her on the same bed. Next, he started to rape her. Smith’s aunt was in the same bed unconscious because she was drunk. Smith’s aunt was so intoxicated that she did not wake up while Smith was being raped. Later that night, Smith’s mother picked up Smith and her sibling. Smith