November Blog Kohei Hikosaka

Before the thanksgiving breaks, we have studied about families and cultures. As you hear families, you all may remember nuclear families without consideration, but is it common throughout the world that systems of families are nuclear families? The answer is obvious. NO. Let me give you an example. For instance, the citizens in Zinacantán which is a city of southern part of Mexico regard people who use their house as their families. Moreover, in China, they have a unique family system. Their family system is called patrilineal family system which is the social system based on blood relationships of fathers. This is an example of how different family systems we have. As I mentioned above, nuclear families are not as common as we consider.

In addition, members of families sometimes face unavoidable challenging. That is a bully within a families. I have thought that a family is an only one community where we can relax without any concerns, however our home can turn to be a horrible place. I guess we can imagine easily bullies exist anywhere around us such as schools and work places. What I was surprised was bullies occur even in houses. That means a parent or parents bully their child. Also, a bully within a home rarely bring to light because their children assume that the reason their parents bully is their faults, so they almost always don’t try to get some advices on their bullies within a family. To decrease the number of bullies within a family, we should care about our neighbors.