Culture

Culture, Culture, Culture

Culture in America might be a little different from the culture in China or Antarctica. The average family size in America is 3.19 and 9.8% families are in poverty not even including just the individuals in poverty. There are still many fun and happy things that go on in America like freedom, but there are also a lot of holidays like Easter, it’s a Christian holiday, the meaning behind it is when they believe Jesus rose from the dead. The children die Easter eggs all sorts of colors and then the “Easter Bunny” hides them. On Easter Sunday children wake up and usually go to church, in the morning they go in search for their Easter basket and their colored Easter eggs that he “Easter Bunny” brought while they were asleep. On July 4th many people wear red, white and blue, there are many parties and lots of fireworks celebrating the countries birthday, when we gained our independence. In the fall every October 31st is Halloween American children dress up in any costume they choose and go from door to door around the neighborhoods saying “Trick or Treat” and getting candy in return. There’s also thanksgiving which is when the Native Americans and pioneer settlers came to peace, on thanksgiving Americans usually spend time with their family and eat a large feast. Another Christian holiday is Christmas, Jesus’ birthday, December 25th family’s get a pine tree and put it in their house, the decorate it with ornaments and lights and then when the children wake up they would find presents under the tree from “Santa Claus”. There are many more fun holidays but there are also some holidays in remembrance of some of the horrible things that happened to our country like Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, December 7th, on December 7th 1941 the Japanese surprise attacked the military base in Hawaii killing many people and starting the World War Two. Another horrible time in American history was September 11th, 2001 on this day terrorists hijacked four planes, they destroyed the world trade center, damaged the pentagon and killed more than three thousand people, that day will forever be remembered.

My culture is pretty much an average American family, I live with my mom, dad, brother and sister. We celebrate Halloween, Easter and Christmas and many more, we celebrate our birthdays and we usually have cake and ice cream and get some presents from your family and friends celebrating your life. Some things my family likes to do for fun is going up north to Brimley and Gladwin where our family’s cottages are. We enjoy to spend time with our family and friends and we are very fond of having celebrations and all getting together to celebrate all the holidays. In my family we agree that school is very important and helps you succeed in life so my siblings and I try to take school seriously. Some things that I and other American teenagers do are just be with our friends and do whatever. My culture might be different from some other cultures just as I view other cultures different or weird, but there is no right or wrong way of culture it just makes us all who we are today.