Family

Family Throughout my lifetime, the opinion that I own that defines a typical family unit has varied greatly. As you grow and mature you learn that the structure and characteristics of your family are very different from that of the family unit in other cultures, lifestyles and regions. In the time that we live in today it is not unusual to have a gay brother sister or even father living in the house across the street. As many cultures and families accept this alternative lifestyle, many do not and oppose with strong cultural reasoning behind them. In fear of breaking cultural traditions and norms many gay family members are frowned upon, shunned or just plain left out of the loop of family circles. Their can only be hope that the family members who find themselves in difficult situations as these can look to love and embrace the choice that their family member has made. In The Wedding Banquet, “Commitments” and “A Chinese Banquet”, examples of each one of these is shown through a cultural looking glass and how that affects the given situation. In all three situations, the issue of marriage raised conflict between the speaker and the family members. In The family, members, banquet, marriage, culture, cultural, chinese, given, wedding, wai, speaks, marry, expectations, eat, commitments, wei, unit, under, tung, tsui, through, speaker, soup, situations, situation, show, represented, representation, pressure, plans, piece, parents, mother, meals, issue, house