We all love our families. Every culture in the world recognizes families, but not all cultures consider the same people to be their kin. You may ask, "How can that be"?Did you know that in some cultures the son goes to live with his mother's brother because he is kin to him but not in the same clan as his own father? In certain cultures a woman may have more than one husband and in others a man may have more than one wife. The world is a very different place once we leave our own culture and start to look at the ways of other peoples. Are they wrong because they believe differently than we do? Would they maybe think our way of doing things is wrong?I hope people will think about these things and discuss them by commenting on this blog. I will soon have my group ready to join and it will have more detail on this. Everyone please look at the terms below. Besides yourself and your brothers and sisters you have:fatherfather's fatherfather's motherfather's brotherwife of father's brotherchildren of father's brotherfather's sisterhusband of father's sisterchildren of father's sistermothermother's fathermother's mothermother's brotherwife of mother's brotherchildren of mother's brothermother's sisterhusband of mother's sisterchildren of mother's sisterYour own husband or wifetheir parentstheir brothers and sistersthe children of their brothers and sistersYou may be starting to get the idea that this can be complicated. Now go to my page and look at the picture album of family and kinship. I have used the kinship terms from my culture for the persons.Can you use the photos to help you determine the correct kinship term for the people in the list above? Examples of some terms we use in English are Grandfather, Grandmother, Great Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles, Great Aunts and Uncles, Nieces, Nephews, Cousins, and various in-laws. I cannot list all here but if you work on this it will help you with understanding kinship terms wen you see them in English. If people comment and wish to know more, I will be happy to share.I also want to know what these people are called in your own language. We will share with each other and we will all learn.
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