Multicultural families are common nowadays in the United States, it is an interesting topic to
learn about.
What is a Multicultural Family?
Being a multicultural family means that either your two parents, or your grandparents are not of
the same race, or culture. One may be Hispanic, Asian, or any other race. For example, if the
mom is Asian and the father is white, you have a multicultural family.
(www.harmonysworld.com)
With this being said, there are some issues regarding multicultural counseling for families. Some
of these are: Knowing what culture really means, there tends to be a misunderstanding that
“culture” only refers to race (in this case, it refers to what you can observe about people on the
outside. Other issues are: understanding English as a second language, making the effort to
educate oneself, acknowledging individual differences and setting biases aside.
Secret to making your multicultural family work:
There are no exact rules to a multicultural relationship but it is a lifelong journey. It takes
compromise, communication and maturity for couples to get a place where it can be said they
can truly understand each other.
There can be misunderstandings, miscommunications, heel digging and more. Also, there can be
struggles to decide where to live, how to educate kids, etc.
If religion is important than it is necessary to talk about it beforehand so that way there wouldn’t
be any disagreements before the first child is born and whether or not to christened him.
Furthermore, celebrate your multicultural family it is good to get the best of both worlds and you
can celebrate two cultures at the same time.
Moreover, another significant issue is to choose a neutral country or area to live in, it is best to
live in a place far away from where you grew up.
The last but not least important factor is to stay connected with both sides of the family,
especially grandparents because they can have some enriched influences in their grandchildren.
Lastly, multicultural families are extremely interesting to know about and especially when that
happens in your own family because it is fun to learn from both cultures.
*Monisha.pushparaj / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
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