There are different groups that I meet with in my weekly or monthly life. First group is my family members and my first cousins and second cousins. The second groups are my coworkers. Third group is my American friends, which I hang out with them on weekends at bars or any other parties. Forth, my mathematics and Actuarial science classmates. 

My family is the most important discourse community that I belong to. For Assyrian, the most important thing is to save our culture and language, so we assyrian most of the time get married to Assyrian. That is how we Assyrian have saved our language and our culture for over 7000 years. In my family, at home everyone speaks Assyrians, even all my cousins that were born in the US they have to speak Assyrian. There is no excuse if someone speak English or any other language in home. Speaking Assyrian is “ Mandatory” If we have family re union, no one can use bad words in front of others because is so disrespectful. The younger must respect alders. When the older walking into the door the younger have to get up and show their respect.  Most of my family members help each other a lot. All of my older family members have the same goal of raising healthy, educated and beneficial people for the society. In addition, they want us to be helpful and honest to each other because we are the same blood. Our membership is just being family, someone might be Assyrian, be a friend, but we never consider them as a family members, and someone can get the membership in my family either to get born in our family or get married to one of our family members. My family members just get married to either Assyrian or just white Christian. No any other religious is allowed to get into our family. If one of my family members get married or fall in love with Muslim or another non Christian person his or her family membership get revoked. Everyone including myself would hate that person , and that person  need to change his or her name, and we pretend that that person is dead for us.  Usually, the older and more knowledgeable people have the authority of our family. Even if we do not agree with it for sake of our parents and the respect we have we usually fallow the

roles.

All the groups that I belong to are very different and they interpret the world differently. For my family all is important is to live peacefully with each other and help each other and rise good kids. At my work place all is important is customers’ satisfaction and happiness and making money as much as they can.  My math classmates just study more to learn more, and my actuarial classmates just think about passing the actuarial exam. I behave and even dress differently when I am in different groups.