"Personal History"

Everybody has a personal history that all build upon or around concepts such as language, religion, immigration, economics, and background. As to part of my background I'm descent of two parents that were born and raise in the Dominican Republic. All of my grandparents from both my mom's and my dad's side of the family were also born and raised in the Dominican Republic. However only my grandparents from my father's side of the family came to the United States. My parents came to the United States a year before I was born which means that they came to the U.S. in their late 30's or early 40's most likely in the year of 1992.

Language

Both of my parents speak only spanish. My sisters and I speak english and spanish and that is because even though my sisters were born in the Dominican Republic, they came to the United States at a young age where they learned english in school. Since I was born in the United States I speak english and spanish equally.


My parents speak spanish not only because they were born in the Dominican Republic but because in 1492 the Dominican Republic also known as Hispaniola was discovered by Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus was a spanish explorer who was sent by King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella from Spain to find new land for more power, territory, crops and gold.

Once Christopher Columbus landed on the island which he named Hispanola, he conquered the island by kicking all the Tanio (which were Native Americans) people and taking over the land including all the crops. As a matter of fact Hispanola was one of the first European settlement in the lands of the Americas.

Religion

My whole entire family is Catholics. In the Dominican Republic 95% of the people there practice Roman Catholicism which came from