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My family is Greek and yes both my grandparents from my mom's side immigrated to America as did my dad. My grandparents meeting each other when my grandma was 17 and my grandpa was 22 and marrying each other two weeks later in an arranged marriage. A year later my grandparents moved to America. My dad immigrated over here with his older brother when he was 15 and his brother was 16. They both came here looking for work, where my dad became a tailor and his brother went back to Greece a few months later. Later my father ended up working where my grandfather worked in Virginia, were my mom would sometimes work. My grandfather ended up introducing them and they were arranged to be together. This does influence my everyday life because if my parents think they are going to arrange my marriage thery are wrong, and if they think im going to get married as young and as fast as they did then they're wrong again.

Taboo is a ban of a custom, moral, or some kind of human activity that is sacred or forbidden based on moral judgment or religion or of human nature. To get rid of some customs that are just unethical and are morally wrong for some people. I believe they were created so that those people doing that certain custom could be distinguished from the rest of the world. I believe that someone with a lot of power or high authority practiced this certain custom and it just kind of got passed down from there. If the custom is something that could be life threatening then its not a problem if its broken, but if its not then they shouldn't taboo a custom because its not theres because they're making the other people feel smaller and less important. I would be mad if someone tabooed one of my customs.

Eros- to be believed as the Greek God of Love in Greek Mythology, right hand man-cupid. E.O.Wilson- American biologist, naturalist and an author.