My Family Cultural Analysis

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Coming from a different culture and being in low-income communities made it difficult to assimilate and helped awaken me to the issues around my family. After moving from Michoacán, Mexico to California, I constantly saw the language barrier hinder my family's ability to ask for basic necessities. First off, we could only rely on family when it came to asking for help since we knew no one in the US. In addition, the only jobs we could work were low-paying and physically-demanding jobs. My father worked more than 12 hours in the fields every day, coming home covered in dirt and in need of rest, while my mother and siblings also worked arduous jobs in vegetable and fruit factories to help pay for our rent and food. Surviving in the US meant focusing