Cultural Domains in Different Families: Christian and Hindu

Cultural Domains in Different Families
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Cultural Domains in Different Families
Learning about different cultures is essential in creating a peaceful and tolerant society. I chose to interview my mother, who is a Christian, and our neighbor, who is a Hindu, because these two people are very different in their culture, religion, and ethnicity. I chose the Hindu neighbor because I wanted to know more about the Hindu culture and religion. After all, it is so foreign to me. I chose my mother because she is a Christian and knows a lot about Christianity and the history of our family values. She can give me a lot of information about our Family values, beliefs, and goals on her side and on my father's side that I can use to compare and contrast with my Hindu neighbor's family.
The interview helped me know a lot about my neighbor's culture. I learned a lot about the Hindu culture and religion from my Hindu neighbor. First, I realized that the Hindu religion is very diverse. There are many different sects of Hinduism, each with its own beliefs and practices. The Hindu culture has also had arranged marriages that have worked well in previous years, creating healthy relationships with little or no divorces happening (Bhattacharyya 2020). However, arranged marriages have reduced today. I also realized that my neighbor's family values education. They send their children of both genders to school and support them up to college. When it comes to work, richer Hindu families incorporate their children into the family business while the rest use their skills and education to find jobs. Traditional gender roles are adhered to in their culture. Decisions are ultimately made by the father, and the mother can only make suggestions. In Hindu culture, marriage is sacrosanct (Sharma 2013), so they do not support domestic partnership and single parenting. They also prefer marrying their race to preserve their culture and religion. Both parents in the family work and are well educated, but the father has a higher-paying job. Communication in the family is usually verbal. When it comes to death, the Hindu culture believes in reincarnation, whereby you resurrect as a different being depending on what you do in this life, and it goes on and on until you reach Nirvana (the highest consciousness).
On the other hand, I was also able to learn about my family from my mother. She told me that our family has always been Christian ever since she can remember. Our family values align with the teachings of the Bible. Communication has always been mostly verbal, and the goal of our family is to educate everyone up to the university level where they can find suitable partners to marry and start a family. Our family is led by the father, and the mother assists in what she can. There are different gender roles, which ...