My Family Culture

A major catastrophe has almost completely devastated the infrastructure of your country. The emergency government has decided that the surviving citizens will be best served if they are evacuated to other countries willing to take refugees. You and your immediate family are among the survivors of this catastrophic event. However, you have absolutely no input into the final destination or in any other evacuation details. You are told that your host country’s culture is completely different from your own, and that you might have to stay there permanently. You are further told that, in addition to one change of clothes, you can only take 3 small items with you. You decide to take three items that you hold dear and that represent your family culture.



The items I would take is our photo album, birth certificates, and my mother in laws silverware, The reason for these items is to have a blueprint of our lives from start to present. The photo's will serve as a reminder of our life before the catastrophe incident and keep us grounded as we continue in a new environment. The birth certificates to show our uniqueness, the places we were born and our identity. My mother inlaw's silverware is the only thing we have that represents her in our lives. We use it at every Holiday dinner and special events. Its a tradition me and my husband have develop and will continue to pass down.


I would be very devastated if we couldn't bring all items, they all mean so much to my family that it would be so hard to choose. By doing this exercise it really made me think about the traditions me and my husband has developed for our family. The way we were raised and the cultures we were exposed to have somewhat made it to our small family along with some new things we developed as husband and wife