Diversity in Families

Last week we talked about diversity in families. This goes beyond the regular race and ethnic diversity, however families do sometimes have that. Most diversity in family comes from the family set up, for example my family is white and we have 2 parents and 5 children, and also education and class and things of that nature.The diversity in my family is that we are LDS, all of my siblings have a basic education and graduated high school or are working on it, most are in college or graduated college, my parents both went to college. So we are well educated. We are all United States citizens and all my family lives in the U.S. We are middle class, we have all the basic necessities of life plus some perks. Another diversity in my family is that I have a sister-in-law and two nephews. It really changed family system and how we interacted with each other. There was all of a sudden another person in our family to get along with. Every family has a culture.
In class we discussed how some cultures might be better than other cultures. In my opinion we should not judge cultures, but we should judge how people turn out from different cultures. In that respect some cultures are better than other cultures. For example in the American culture I know that we look at ourselves from the outside. When someone asks you who you are you tell them material things you have and what kind of education you have received. In comparison in Mexico they do not care what you look like. They see themselves from the inner beauty. If you ask them who they are they will tell you different things about themselves. They are not as worried about outer beauty, and material goods. I think in that their culture is better than ours. We have many eating disorders because our culture focuses so much on outer beauty and being the prettiest girl out there and having the coolest stuff. Also another thing about culture is that you can't look at another culture in the lens of your culture, because every culture is different. When studying other cultures you have to have an open mind, and not be biased. Your culture is going to be different from other cultures, it does not make yours better.