Family In Kurdistan

Family in Kurdistan The origin of the word family is going back to the Latin word Familia meaning “servants of a household”, and its meaning alters due to various perspectives. Family is defined as “a group consisting of one or two parents, their children and close relations” according to Oxford dictionary. However, there are different standpoints about it in Kurdish culture based on the people’s educational level. Firstly, among the educated or modernized members of the community family is explicated as the source in which they gain their respect and pride. Furthermore, this class of the community is either less or not patriarchal, and all of the family members possess analogous rights without exceptions. While the majority of Kurdistan’s

Kurdish culture explicitly perceives family as a group people who belong to the same blood, while this definition is a universal elucidation. Despite that definition, they hold two thoroughly various interpretations of family implicitly. The definitions of family vary consistent with the educational level of the people or the intention for modernization of the community in which the individuals grow up. The first definition is stated by the educated and modernized members of the society as they embody their “philosophical” or “educational” views by mentioning family as the source of respect and pride. Nonetheless, the other portion of the nation who are against modernization and not educated refer to family as a container of their moral values which can merely be protected by males. Various factors induce these reflections of family within the classes of community since one of the reasons is considered as the way they have grown up. To demonstrate, the first group mostly lives in urban areas or cities, and their lives are filed of competition and attempting to promote new and sophisticated ideas and gain respect by being better than the neighbors. In contrast, people in the other groups that live in the rural areas or villages are mostly seeking maintenance of their life without trying to make changes, and one of the main aspects their life is protecting moral

As they claim that family is a group of people who are arranged in a hierarchical structure in which the father or the oldest brother is the dominant power and has last say in making momentous decisions; besides, they consider the moral values and the name of the family as tremendously a crucial aspect of life, which generally lies on girls or females. This definition implicitly implies that females are the fundamentals of the families because the name of the families can be ruined by the females very easily, and children or the young people of the family are not capable to participate in the decision makings as they are not “familiar” with life and its lessons. Therefore, there should always be a leader or organizer to decide about the important aspects of the family, and that person is a male in most of the cases because females are seen as weak and emotional. While these communities are smaller than the other ones (educated communities which mostly locate in the big cities), honor and name of the families are emphasized on rather than education or expressing new ideas. These people mostly enforce conformity or the ancestors’ cultures and customs instead of seeking change and modernity. As the article Mexican family culture denotes that Mexican families have a hierarchal tighten structure in which every member of the family has his-her own