American parents vs.___

This video is about Middle Eastern parents vs. American Parents.

do you all have diferent types of friends and girlfriends/boyfriends from other cultures and do you find it difficult or is it easy?

Over here in Europe we don't often see European kids hang out with other cultures, unless they have been born, and/or raised here. The barrier is mostly the language.

I'm in a slightly different position; my dad's from eastern Europe and my mom is American. My dad believed that once he made a life here, he was an American too. But he was very traditional in his values and morals, and as kids, we never really quite fit in completely with our "whitebread" American friends.

I used to be somewhat embarrassed by the way he expected me to act, or how he expected me to treat him and my mom, but looking back as an adult, I'm thankful that I had the experience of living in 2 worlds. While I never learned his language, I did learn a lot about our culture and retained some of the values that he raised me with (after years of rebellion, of course).

It's hard here in America!!! I'm Ukrainian and lol I always was out of place among Americans. cultures of Eastern Europe are really juxtaposed to American culture. my boyfriend is Polish, we get eachother a lot more and have a lot of the same upbringing, thus mostly same feeling and reactions to the world around us.

Difficult yes are American friends sometimes. ... I don't really know how to explain it. It's like we are both oblivious to each others' implications about everything.

The people I always got along better with as a kid , were the few Hispanic, Indian, or middle eastern people I could find.

you know what? I should have posted this in the PARENTING section. 😢
it was late and i was heading to bed.

Posted by sultrykitty
I'm in a slightly different position; my dad's from eastern Europe and my mom is American. My dad believed that once he made a life here, he was an American too. But he was very traditional in his values and morals, and as kids, we never really quite fit in completely with our "whitebread" American friends.

I used to be somewhat embarrassed by the way he expected me to act, or how he expected me to treat him and my mom, but looking back as an adult, I'm thankful that I had the experience of living in 2 worlds. While I never learned his language, I did learn a lot about our culture and retained some of the values that he raised me with (after years of rebellion, of course).

thanks for that, sultrykitty, I believe that is also very much a good example.

i bet that's hard to have parents who have different cultures/backgrounds, but at the same time,it seems very ENRICHING.

to have a personal view and insight and upbringing from your grandparents and father's side who is middle eastern and see how they are, will help make you relate to middle eastern issues and people of that background.

Same with American culture (although it's kind of a mesh mash of everything)

that's too bad you never learned his language. and it's really great you learned alot of good values.

Posted by augustmoon
It's hard here in America!!! I'm Ukrainian and lol I always was out of place among Americans. cultures of Eastern Europe are really juxtaposed to American culture. my boyfriend is Polish, we get eachother a lot more and have a lot of the same upbringing, thus mostly same feeling and reactions to the world around us.

Difficult yes are American friends sometimes. ... I don't really know how to explain it. It's like we are both oblivious to each others' implications about everything.

The people I always got along better with as a kid , were the few Hispanic, Indian, or middle eastern people I could find.

i bet. i heard it's hard for mixed races to FIT in with anyone there, so you go for the mixed batches. '

oh man that's so hard for teenagers too. 😢

it's tough.

it can be anyone from childhood to your adulthood.

same here, i had friends who were ethnic, OR at least friends who were mixed,= ie, swedish, hawaiian, german, spanish, ect many mixes.