Cheating Case

Americans have many different beliefs; it all depends on how they were brought up as a child, but some times this may change. When people become adults they may have different beliefs that when they were a child because they are away from their parents and they are becoming their own person. Children are taught right from wrong like being gay is wrong, women marry and have children is right, buy nice things to make yourself look better is right, and hang with people like themselves is right. But when children grow up they decide what they think is right for them and they may come to believe in different beliefs then the one's they were taught as a child. In fact this happens in everyday life for example, being gay is wrong but there are many people that are gay as we speak and I'm pretty sure that their parents did not teach them that. Another example is kid's most likely hang with other kids that are like themselves and as they get older it may change and it may not. It just depends on what they have come to believe. Therefore, children will believe in one thing at that point in time and as they get older and learn, experience, and see the real world their beliefs will change about certain things but not every thing. The life style a child is taught is the life style of what people think a real American should believe in and what they should not.

Mean while when Americans look at certain topics they get this image in their head of what it should be like but in all reality it is not like that one bit. For example, when people look at marriage they think of a man and women, the beautiful church, in front of people, bride in white, vows, Pastor, the bridesmaids, groomsman, and that other entire stuff people have at weddings. But what about gay people that want to be married, people who do not believe in marriage, and people who do not have weddings and they just go to the court house. Like Catherine Newman she believes marriage to be "A tool of patriarchy"(60). Which most likely she was not taught that as a child but have came to realize that for her self. She also believes that "Marriage is about handing the women off, like a baton, from her father to her husband aka traffic in women"(Newman 60). Her mother most likely wanted to see her daughter get married in that American picture that she had in mind but it did not go like that.

Therefore, most children do not always grow up believing what they were taught. Another example, of a belief is when people live