Cultural Values
Cultural Values

When I was a kid growing up in a small town with 10000 population in Brazil. I was a the second to last child to be born in my family and we were very poor. My father, a Italian Immigrant came to Brazil in the 1950’s to escape the second world war II and to start a new life.
Our family were very poor and even tough we didn’t have all the material stuff my mother, a Portuguese decedent were very religious. They brough religion in our every day life and every Sunday we went to church, follow religious holidays and most important of all. My father one rules was that everyone must sit in the dinner table every night and pray the blessing we receive that that, even tough we didn’t have much. I didn’t understand sometimes why we would that every day instead of playing with the others kids.
In the beginning I tough it was a tortuture sitting in that table for dinner and having the same thing almost every night instead of playing outside with my friend I had to follow my father’s order because I knew the consequences and it wasn’t very good.
The years part and little by little my brother and sisters were getting married and our daily reunion at the dinner table started to fade way and I started missing it.
Our daily dinner reunion started to become Sunday reunion when we meet after church on Sunday for Lunch.

This tradition lasted for a couple of years until I decided to go after my own luck and moved to the United States in 1996 to look for better opportunities in life and in a couple of years later in 2000 my father passed away and tht was the end of our family tradition.
My father was a good man, he raised 6 children and he dedicated his entire life to his family. He didn’t stop working until he passed way to give his family a better life and he put all of us though college.
My father is an example of a good man which helped