At the beging of the semester I made it a goal to learn and pick up different family traditions and values from the various family cultures we study that I want to implament in my future family. For today's class we read an article about how immigration has effected hyspanic families. One thing that I learned from the reading that I would like to take from their culture is there great sense of "familism." In the hyspanic culture their families seem to be more involved in eachother's lives and tend to include their extended family in more activities. In the reading it said that those imigrants who leave Mexico and come here tend to lose that familism. I think that is partialy due to the fact that they are leaving a lot of their extended family but more primarily due to their adapting to the U.S.'s independent lifestyle. In my own family I want to adopt that idea of familism. I want my children not only to have a close relationship with me and my husband but also with eachother and our extended family. I want to be one of those families that plays games together, takes vacations together, and just enjoys being with eachother.