My informant, Peter Ahn, categorizes his blood relatives very differently than Americans would categorize their blood relatives. Since Peter is Korean, the Korean culture is different from American culture. First of all Peter categorizes his family in two different categories. Well not every single family member, but he categorizes his aunts and uncles, and grandparents in two different categories. However, I will start the list of my informant’s categorization with the parents. First of all, he labels his mom as “oma,” he labels his father as “ahpa.” Next is the categorization for brother and sister, the categorization is different for males and females. If one were a male, such as my informant Peter, he would have to call his “older” brother �

3. Households. What kinds of households exist among your informant’s kin group? Who lives in the house and why? Does the composition ever change? Why or why not?

The only social relationships that my informant has with his family members are with his mom and his brother. Peter usually hangs out with his brother a lot so they tend to be real close, which means that they tend to have a real social relationship as well as having a close relationship. Peter is also close to his mom, since him being close to his mom it reflects the fact that he is social with her too. Peter doesn’t really have a social relationship with his father; the only time he has to be social with him is if he has to be. My informant and his father aren’t very close, that is why they don’t really establish a social connection within one another. The social relationship that my informant has with his aunts and uncles, and grandparents is that he talks to them only when they have family parties of some sort, other than that he doesn’t really talk to them as much, and of course he would talk to them with the greatest respect, because in Korean culture or any Asian culture the young ones would have to respect their elders by great means. However, with this grandparent’s on the father’s side he doesn’t talk to them at all since they had passed away. The social relationship that my informant has with his cousins is that he doesn’t really

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