What is family culture?

Answer 1

Family culture relates to a way of life within a particular family, as distinct from the culture of that family's main community.

Regardless of the wider culture within which all families live, each family has its own special ways of doing things which are most usually passed on through generations, as well as sometimes existing throughout the wider, or extended, family group.

Language differences often form the most noticeable part of a family culture. In the same street, in any English-speaking community, for example, you might find families all speaking of grandparents as:

Baba and Dedo

Gram and Gramps

Grandma and Grandad

Gran and Granpa

Gran and Pa

Nan and Pop

Nonna and Nonno

Oma and Opa

Yaya and Pappou

One distinct way families display individual differences is in how they celebrate, and which kind of occasions they celebrate. Other cultural differences between families might be seen in:

adult-child interaction

décor preferences

food and cooking

manner of dress

pet management and interaction

relaxation, hobbies and sports

religious observance

Family cultural differences owe a great deal to cultural components - origins, religions, and so on - within separate families, but each individual family has its own distinct cultural markers, some highly evident, others practically unnoticeable to those not part of or very close to the family. Many such differences between families are regarded within the families as perfectly normal; a lot of people would be astonished to realize a particular manner of speech, of passing the salt, of speaking to a baby, are distinctly their family's own.

Early-childhood workers frequently observe these differences in children who are perhaps socializing outside the family environment for the first time. This is an enriching experience for all concerned, though all whose work involves very young children know that it's essential to identify on the first day just what the child will say when it needs the bathroom. Usually the parents are asked this by staff. One worker observed, 'Some children just say they "need to go", but for others it can be like a totally different language, impossible to know what they're saying - you need to be quick to understand body language!'

Answer 2

Family cultures are beliefs,tradition,rituals,customs,practices and a way of life a the unit institution in any community or group that share common cultures but can also have its unique practices accepted or rejected in the institution.