Respect animal rights
Zhu 1
Xiru Zhu
Professor Andrews
Class: Enl28
Date: 1/29/14
The Impact from Families and Communities Family, culture, and community are essential foundations of our lives. People are influenced greatly by their families and communities. Our parents heavily impact us from our formative years since all of our time is spent with them. We are impressionable in our youth and spending most of our time with our parents can influence us in many ways. Firstly, family and community can create our living environment, and they help us develop our own characteristics of personality and various behaviors, whether good or bad. What’s more, the family environment might decide our hobbies and occupations; we might become like our parents. Besides, our lives are profoundly affected by our experiences in ethnic groups and cultural traditions, and we might have the same religion with our family members. Briefly, family and community have a tremendous impact on our lives and the decisions we make. Our family environment has a huge impact to our behaviors in our lives, because the environment that we are living is the most important thing to develop our behaviors, our behaviors will change with the change of the environment. Family provides us an environment to learn and absorb things in the world. However, we learn from our parents or caregivers because they are our role models. They teach and influence us their ways of living. Family and community have built us behaviors, whether good or bad. I am Chinese and I grew up in Sichuan, China. Sichuan is a province in China, and the locals speak their dialect. In my family, my mom taught and required my brother and me to talk in mandarin, which is the common language in China. From the community, we were also required to speak
Zhu 2 mandarin in school. Mandarin is our national language and it is necessary
Xiru Zhu
Professor Andrews
Class: Enl28
Date: 1/29/14
The Impact from Families and Communities Family, culture, and community are essential foundations of our lives. People are influenced greatly by their families and communities. Our parents heavily impact us from our formative years since all of our time is spent with them. We are impressionable in our youth and spending most of our time with our parents can influence us in many ways. Firstly, family and community can create our living environment, and they help us develop our own characteristics of personality and various behaviors, whether good or bad. What’s more, the family environment might decide our hobbies and occupations; we might become like our parents. Besides, our lives are profoundly affected by our experiences in ethnic groups and cultural traditions, and we might have the same religion with our family members. Briefly, family and community have a tremendous impact on our lives and the decisions we make. Our family environment has a huge impact to our behaviors in our lives, because the environment that we are living is the most important thing to develop our behaviors, our behaviors will change with the change of the environment. Family provides us an environment to learn and absorb things in the world. However, we learn from our parents or caregivers because they are our role models. They teach and influence us their ways of living. Family and community have built us behaviors, whether good or bad. I am Chinese and I grew up in Sichuan, China. Sichuan is a province in China, and the locals speak their dialect. In my family, my mom taught and required my brother and me to talk in mandarin, which is the common language in China. From the community, we were also required to speak
Zhu 2 mandarin in school. Mandarin is our national language and it is necessary
Cited: Maxine Hong Kingston. “No Name Woman.” The Presence of Others: Voices and Images that call for the Response 5th ed. Ed: Andrea, A. Lunsford and John, J. Ruszkiewicz. Boston: Bedford/St Martin’s 2008 394-403