Family Relationships
Family Television
A family is a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not. According to the reading, the diversity of each family and family members goes beyond differential matters. Where men dominate, women do not. More specifically, in a living room, the man would grip the remote control and pick the channels to watch according to his preference, whereas the woman would have to sort of nod her head in disapproval and comply. When it comes to my family, the differences between our relationship with television and the ones mentioned in the reading, trump the similarities greatly. By explaining the background of my family, the ethnicity, and the roles played by each member, I have come to the conclusion that their differences surpass the similarities due to the circumstances of my family.
My family consists of my father, my mother, and my three younger siblings. Haya, 16, is currently in her sophomore year of high school. Jaber, 13, is enjoying his last year in middle school, and the baby of the family, Mariam, 10, is currently in grade 5. My father suffers from the chronic disease Multiple Sclerosis, is a retired bank CEO, while my mother is a housewife who ironically, hates the kitchen.
When it comes to watching television, the family does not really “watch” TV. Due to MS, my father has grown to adopt a specific lifestyle in which he follows a certain routine everyday. While watching TV, he likes to stare at the screen and discuss every little matter that has occurred during which the program is running. “Notice his shirt? It’s not ironed correctly… Back in the day if our shirts weren’t ironed correctly we’d have to take them off our backs and iron them all over again.” Seeing as which he trails off onto a whole different subject matter, it is very hard for us to watch a show without interruptions when he is around. My father likes to watch four different channels, and will not –
A family is a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not. According to the reading, the diversity of each family and family members goes beyond differential matters. Where men dominate, women do not. More specifically, in a living room, the man would grip the remote control and pick the channels to watch according to his preference, whereas the woman would have to sort of nod her head in disapproval and comply. When it comes to my family, the differences between our relationship with television and the ones mentioned in the reading, trump the similarities greatly. By explaining the background of my family, the ethnicity, and the roles played by each member, I have come to the conclusion that their differences surpass the similarities due to the circumstances of my family.
My family consists of my father, my mother, and my three younger siblings. Haya, 16, is currently in her sophomore year of high school. Jaber, 13, is enjoying his last year in middle school, and the baby of the family, Mariam, 10, is currently in grade 5. My father suffers from the chronic disease Multiple Sclerosis, is a retired bank CEO, while my mother is a housewife who ironically, hates the kitchen.
When it comes to watching television, the family does not really “watch” TV. Due to MS, my father has grown to adopt a specific lifestyle in which he follows a certain routine everyday. While watching TV, he likes to stare at the screen and discuss every little matter that has occurred during which the program is running. “Notice his shirt? It’s not ironed correctly… Back in the day if our shirts weren’t ironed correctly we’d have to take them off our backs and iron them all over again.” Seeing as which he trails off onto a whole different subject matter, it is very hard for us to watch a show without interruptions when he is around. My father likes to watch four different channels, and will not –