My ethnicity can somewhat be described as a very mixed group of cultures. I am half French half Portuguese. My father's side of the family is the French side. They are a very conservative group of people and are mainly Christians and they had a certain way of how households were run. Typically, it would be the man of the house that has to provide and take care of the entire family and seen as the protector and the strong image of the house. This shows a great example of the way gender roles were and are assigned in my father's ethnicity. I guess because my grandparents were so heavily influenced through their ethnicity and the cultural and indigenous beliefs that their house holds carried that strict need to continue traditions and that would also make sense why my father rebelled against the beliefs his family had.

Then there is my mother. My mother is half Swiss and half Portuguese, though my grandfather that was Swiss left my mother and grandmother when my mother was very young, so she grew up in a traditional Portuguese household. They were catholic and also pretty conservative, but because of the event of my grandfather leaving the bounds of gender roles were completely changed and instead of a man being the provider and protector it became the woman.  This also shaped my mother's perspective on gender roles in a household.

When my father and mother got married there was much conflict because of the difference in believes and structures especially in a family and household, therefor it was hard for my mother to give her old perspective on gender roles and submit to my father's profound view on gender roles since he was raised way stricter and traditionally. This inevitably led to my and fathers divorce and because of the difference that there were growing up we were also not really raised religious o taught much about our ethnicity and traditions.