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Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG
That is more like my cousin's kids. She is a Mennonite and home schools them. I think 1 of them will be okay, but the others are going to have a hard time with the outside world. The two oldest boys are almost 18. They were asking my aunt about celebrating a holiday. She told them she doesn't celebrate that because she is Jewish. They had no idea there were other religions and that was the last time they got to stay at my aunt and uncle's house(their grandparents) for more than 3-4 hours at a time. |
Honestly, I can sort of understand in a way. If it wasn't because a special set of circumstances that made me come back to the U.S after living in Honduras for 12 years (3yo-15yo) I would've been a completely different person. My mother was very over-protective and never allowed us to go out, which was well-founded, crime in Honduras is very real, among other things that I never got to experience. But the only way to prepare yourself against the world is by actually living in it and experience it. The culture shock for me from what a teenager can do in Honduras vs USA was a rude awakening in a way, plus the fact that I no longer was living with my family, but relatives instead, and we have a saying that goes "The dead, after 3 days, start stinking" which can kind of tell you how my relationship living with relatives went.
But I did learn how to be independent, defend myself, think outside the box, look at the bright side of things.
Whenever I visited Honduras to see my family after a year or so, my expectations didn't quite matched my parents, but they learned to adjust to what I now expected to be normal and fair. I suggested they did the same with my siblings, but the results have been different, as it was a little too late. So I've had to mentor them in a way, in their mid 20s. With them just recently now living in a country completely different than Honduras.