Growing up in Multicultural Families

James McGuire

English 322, Section# 567

May 8, 2003

Growing up in Multicultural Families

My own feelings about the trend to multicultural families isn’t right, how some Europeans don’t like Americans because, they are racist. But, migrates came here to long before they called America the New World . British settlers brought in Africans as the slave trade triangle to make sugar out of rum. I don’t think it is right for people brought up for slaves. To me it’s alright to be multicultural because, I am related to people who came here from different countries. It is like the melting pot I learned from U.S. History class at High School. I don’t think my family comes from a multicultural background but, I get to learn about my ancestors and who I am relate to Scandinavian, Irish, Scottish, English, French, German, Dutch; some Native-American: Cherokee and one Natives who came from Canada. My girlfriend she is Turkish and I love her. But, I get to know about her culture and language from communicating over on the internet. In Turkey , people celebrate Ramadan and they fast for a couple of weeks. After Ramadan ends, they have a sweet festival and eat Turkish candy. Turkish cuisine people eat sheshkabab and have rice and meat stuffed bell peppers. I got to know some people on my train trip back home from San Diego who came from England but they lived in Italy and spoke Italian. These women thought I looked European but I wasn’t. I told them, “I am an American.” They put me on their video camera while I was eating snack food for lunch. I got embarrassed from camera. I feel that a multicultural background is a positive thing in today’s society because; I feel special who I am personally. All types of good food here is multicultural. I like to eat Chinese food, Japanese food, Italian food, Mexican food and there are all different kinds that have delicious flavors. Back east in America the cultural is different. I don’t like it there when I went to New York City it’s too crowded and some people have a cynical mood. I am glad to be in California its so beautiful here even the Western States.