Socialization in Hindu Brahmin Family in Canada

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SOCIALIZATION
ESSAY
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12/10/2018

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Part 1:
The family that I went for a research interview was involved in Hinduism cultural
practice as they were from India and recently moved to Canada for job purposes. The family
practices Hindu Brahmin culture. Head of the house is Ankit, the father, his wife Anu and
sixteen-year-old daughter Anika.
They migrated from India one year ago and have settled down in a friendly
environment and neighbours. They are from Delhi, India. The family had to deal with issues
regarding immigration to Canada as settling down in a new environment was difficult for
them. In addition, some other reasons of shifting to Canada were getting a place of their own
with Indian neighbourhood (Spracklin, 2018). Indian climatic conditions are always moderate
while in Canada, the temperature is too low and it is mostly freezing half of the year and
Indian face this as a major cause of issue and adapting to this temperature will take some
time. Getting a better job was also one of the factors for the survival in a new country. Some
other issues faced by family other than employment and housing is language barriers, access
to services such as hurdle in health care facilities, other than that transportation issues faced
by the family and finding a new school for their daughter, as the family needed a friendly
environment high school.
Child rearing practices in India is very different from Canadian rearing culture
(Tudge, 2008). Back in India, they have a joint family consisting of 12 members and they had
to move to Canada for better work perspective. In Indian families, especially girls of their
house are considered as a symbol of luck and wealth in the home and the parents are little
conservative in compared to Canadians parents. In Canada, the family are independent to
each other, they let their children work at a young age and they are free spoken towards each
other. While in Indian families, it is exact opposite to what Canadian family’s practices such

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as, they are dependent to their family and live together until they graduate or establish
themselves by getting a good job and get married.
Indian families have strong traditional value and hence, they do not support
everything a child wants for herself/himself. They think about the situation and take their
elders permission to take any decision in their life. The role of religion is an important value
and culture in Indian families. Hence, the rearing of Indian family is done accordingly by
telling them learn their religion and start following it strictly, so that they can pass on this
ritual to next generation.
Some important ritual a Brahmin Hindu family follows is praying two times a day and
visiting temple on one particular day of the week. Brahmin Hindu is one of the most common
religions in India and they have some strict rules such as cooking or eating non-veg is not
permitted in home or anywhere else as well. Brahmin Hindu is an upper-caste religion of
India and this religion practices their culture strictly and does prayer of Hindu god.
This family is from modern Hindu family with culture and good moral values. Hence,
the family expects from their daughter Anika, to complete her studies from good reputed
university and get a good job. In addition, the family also says that, we will decide when and
to who Anika will get married. The family believes in arrange marriages, as they do not
expect someone to get married to Anika who is not from their religion, caste or country.
Hence, they want their child to follow the ritual and traditions of the family and continue it in
the future.
According to the family, they miss the touch of Indian festival in Canada. In India,
people celebrate many festivals together especially in a joint family like Ankit’s they enjoy
each other’s company, and gossiping the whole night. The main festival is Diwali, that is
celebrated in India (MacMillan, 2008). During the festival time, families get together light up