Karen's Family Structural Roles

The Karen’s family structural roles are separated and influence by age, gender, family, marriage, and kinship. The Karen’s like many other culture interpreted respect/ manners differently and it’s past down by the family. People in the Karen culture like many others traditional cultures are gender role separated. The men will work in the fields and the women do housework, but some female will do field work. Traditionally most of them wear red shirts that includes male and married females, and single women will wear white dresses In Karen’s Family there name are given by a specific situation that occurs in there day of birth or by an object such as a name of a flower. In America we are identified by a name and share a family name/ marriage name.
If a male is interested in a female, he usually writes a letter expressing interest. After marriage they can no longer go to school and are consider adults. Most Karen’s get married at the age of 20. In Karen’s cultural education is highly respected, and for those how can go to school start from age 5-20 years of age and some even start as late as 10 years of age according to EthnoMed. In their adolescence, Karen are more responsible for siblings and sometimes work on the fields to help the family income. The elderly are respected just as much as any professional with an education, alongside many pastors and priest. A reason many elderly gain there respect is due to knowing the traditional medicine and knowledge. Adults in the Karen culture feel more construable asking for guidance from elderly than a doctor. According to EthnoMed many of the Karen’s culturally are quitter and less talkative in comparison to Western cultures. Subsequently many have a hard time asking questions and sharing information with a doctor due to his status role in their culture. The elderly also live with the family and often are all the children responsibility after they become unable to