Family Traditions

1000 words or more essay.

How do family traditions and cultural legacies contribute to and/ or inhibit on individual’s self-identity? A number of readings address an aspect of family traditions/cultural heritage and individual identity and fulfillment for example, Walker’s +Everyday Use,” Heaney’s “Digging,” Rich’s “Delta,” Kelley’s “The People in Me,” Walker’s “Lineage.” Drawing an evidence from several readings and your own experience and observations, write a claim of value argument about an aspect of family heritage and individual identity

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The saying like father like son is a saying from the old times but it makes sense even today because of how related one’s life is as compared to one’s family. This saying has more weight than meets the eye in the sense that the father passes a lot of his behavior as well as his beliefs to his son. This saying, although literally can be taken as a son learning from the father, the father is not always the only one that children learn from. Traditions are passed from a generation to the following generation…..

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