An Ideal Of American Culture

As a first generation, American, my family always had high hopes and expectations of my cousins and I. We were dictated on how to act thing and believe. To always keep our morals true to home, yet stay integrated into the American culture in order to stay prevalent sand become successful. Since I was the youngest of them all, my family is expectations of my cousins were further expected of me, and I feel as though this is an ideal that is consistently set on younger generations in families. We are told to follow the guidelines and uphold to the same standard that our older counterparts were inducted into. The problem with this is that we are machine factory making our generations, as it is easier to create a mold that upholds to the guidelines, regulations and expectations that are expected, opposed to designing a standard that conforms to everyone’s personal
It gives everyone the impression that we are less successful or even less of a person just because we couldn’t attain to the standards that weren’t even made for us. This demoralizing situation leads to increased rates on suicide, and depression, this overwhelming feeling or not only rejection but the worthlessness, self-loathing and the idea of unattainable success forces generations into doubting their abilities, intellect and propels them in to a perpetual self-fulfilling prophecy; they won’t achieve much in life, so they don’t even try. This disturbing ideal has kept me using the high expectations and the nonconforming standards set by my family as a way to live my life. They help me focus and better myself as to not adhere to the perpetual cycle that is infecting my fellow generation