My family of origin is composed of a large family unit. All of my family are of Hispanic origins. In which the male is one of the main structure in the family. They are the one that dictates the rule or norms for the family to follow. Everything is driven to follow a hierarchy. The male is the dominant part in the family .The father is the one that discipline. The woman are the Maitra. We are the sole column of our family. We are the care giver and make sure that everything falls in place. The woman takes a deeper role in making sure that everything falls in its place .The majority of the Hispanic families are family oriented the traditional way. Starting on with my grandparents the show us of what is a family structure and the unity of the family. I was raised that family comes before anyone and this is the way that it has been for me. Looking back to the three generations there has been a pattern in were marriage comes first and then you create a family. I as I was doing my genogram I noticed that there was a pattern in this.
Family messages …show more content…
In a Hispanic family we are all mix, but I could never understood why some members of my family were so discriminatory about black or if they skin was darker. Not until the age of 8, I started to notice that we are were different. When I was a child I was not raised by my parents with racial thoughts. I was raised that we were all the same. That brakes the pattern of what my grandparent’s belief were. I was told by then that you don’t mix races. I was very small and I never understood them until I was an adult. I follow my parents belief .I was taught by them that we human are all the same, different but the same. I cut off with the discriminatory pattern of