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My Family Essay

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Imagine growing up in a family where the smells of Filipino food always fill the air and the language spoken is unknown to you yet still so familiar. Thats the family I grew up in: half Filipino half white. The family I grew up in has shaped me because of the values, traditions, and beliefs that I have grown up around. The person I am today is all because of my family. In finding my own identity I have come to the realization that I am more than just me. I am both my mom and my dad, a combination of two different people, two different lifestyles, two different cultures, and two different ideas of their own traditions, values, and beliefs. I have a deep connection with my dad. He is Scandinavian, yet he most commonly cooks the Filipino food at home. The things I have come to love and enjoy have come from him, but most importantly, he has taught me how to love and care, what it 's like to be loved and cared for, he has shown me everything I know, he taught me how to be me. My dad has always been there for me the most, not that my mom isn 't there, but my dad always put in the effort to spend time with us. My dad even explained it to me once, he said to me that his parents weren 't there like he is there for us. They never played games with him, they never spent their time with him, they didn 't do the things that he does with us. They did their own thing and he did his own thing. So when he became an adult he didn 't want to be like that as a parent, so he changed what he

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