One Family, Two Societies Growing up in a Pakistani household I was expected not to question or disrespect my father in any way. My father who was raised in Pakistan was a stern man, and stubborn at that. My father and I never really talked about anything serious. There came a point where I started to think and express my own opinions, which were different from what my father had. Over the past year I …showed first 75 words of 529 total…

…showed last 75 words of 529 total…father. I had overcome a major conflict with my father, he understood how I felt about our values. My father knew that I respected him and I could express my opinions without conflict. My father was afraid that I would loose traditional values. He and I both realized that I could embrace new culture without loosing traditional values. In the end the same independence that pulled me away from him, brought me closer to him.