In recent years, there has been growing concern about inmigrants who pull apart their traditional culture when they move overseas whereas others believe that is necessary to keep their traditions. This essay will discuss both sides and explain why I personally believe that your habits, feelings, and more aspects of the place that you had born, are an important part of your identity and is important to proudly preserve that.
On the era of opportunities in terms of careers, it is normal to see entire families moving away faster than a decade ago. From a social perspective, it is clear that this continuous change has an impact on the identity of the kids, who does not incorporate traditions in the same way as a child who grow up in the same place. To illustrate this point, we can look at Messi’s (the greatest soccer player) kids, they born in Argentina and into a family of argentinians parents, but traveling from Europe to Usa and just visiting Argentina a few times. According to that, they support the country in sports, but they are not as interested in the culture and traditions as another kids of the same age which born and raised in Argentina.
On the other hand, some individuals take a completely different position, believing that culture is part of your personality. As an example, it is common to see groups on social media of inmigrants who can travel or spend a lot of money trying to buy specific groceries from their home town. This phenomenon can be clearly observe in Argentinians, who drink their “mate”, similar to a tea but also has a ritual behind that consists on having a pause on your day and share while they are with friends or family. Not matter if they are living on Asia, Oceania or America, for them it is part of they every day routine, and could pay even five times the price to get the stuff that is necessary to prepare that drink.
Taking everything into account, my finally thought is that culture plays a crucial role on people that lives away of their home country, but even more on the ones who move as an adults than in early childhood.