Realtionships in my culture:
1. Who do the members in my culture consider to be my family? I would have to say the blood related people, people related through marriage of a blood related member, pets.
2. What are some roles and resposibilties of specific family members? Mainly that everyone needs to have respect to everyone and responsibilities. You need to respect and help out your parents at all times.
3. Are family members encouraged to stay in the same house/ area as their family after adolscence? The children are expected to go to school and live at home until they graduate from high school and then it is up to them whether they go to college or not and move out. Eventually they are expected to move out once they wed.
4. What are the cultural norms and taboos regarding dating and meeting people with whom to become romantically involved? Well it is necessary that the family meets the significant other before they get married and that they should meet more then once with the family.
5. How are marriage proposals conducted? The man picks a special smeaningful spot and gets on one knee with an engagement ring and asks the woman if she will marry him. Usually the guy should ask the parents for permission ahead of time.
6. What is the typical wedding like? They get married in a church and then have a ceremony there and then afterwards they have a receptions with food and dancing fun at some kind of hotel.
This is pretty specific to my family which I do not think I was suppose to do...
What is the craziest tradition that you personally family has with marriage and weddings??
I cannot think of any crazy tradition that my family has with marriage and weddings. My family consists mostly of young kids right now. I have a few cousins who have gotten married while I have been alive but both weddings were very traditional.
ReplyDeleteUmm my family does not have anything crazy traditions for weddings, I just know that we do what typical people do. You get married in churches, or even outside sometimes, and the bride wears white. I wish I could think of a crazy traditions, or something I could look back at and think of as a tradition I could one day use in my wedding, but we don't, unfortunately!
ReplyDeleteI'm in the same boat as Katie and Charissa. My family has no crazy wedding traditions. In fact the only semi crazy tradition that we have at all is hiding a pickle ornament somewhere in the house on Christmas. Who every finds the pickle gets a present. I think its corny now but when I was younger I loved it.
ReplyDeleteIn my family we have a tradition of instead of clinking the glasses to make the bride and groom kiss, they call couples names to demonstrate a kiss which the new couple must copy. They start to get pretty creative and it's a lot more fun than clinking the glasses and getting the same kiss every time.
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