Comparing Social Expectations By Fulgham And Cielo Melero

Everyone is different in ways but when compared among others some may be surprised as to how much relation can be made between people who appear to be the opposite of each other. I interviewed my peers Aireanna Fulgham and Cielo Melero and we compared social expectations with topics such as roles within a family and how each person is expected to grow. In this paper I am going to compare about how my social expectations are aligned with my peers Aireanna and Cielo’s social expectations. My first comparaission came with Aireanna Fulgham. The first expectation Aireanna mentioned is that she must dress respectfully and wear non revealing clothes as thats how her family brought her up. I can relate to Aireanna’s dress code because my

The book “Interpersonal Communication” by Sarah Trenholm and Arthur Jensen relates social expectations by mentioning “Most develop basic expectation early on within their family. Those expectations either stay with a person their whole life or as a person ages expectations may change. (148)” That quote fits with Aireanna’s and my own expectations. We both developed our own social expectations early on within our families and those expectations have stayed with us throughout life. The types of clothes we wear are prime examples of that as early on our parents taught us to dress respectfully and as we got older that expectation stayed with us as we still dress respectfully and show pride within our clothes because that’s what we believe successful people do. Another expectation Aireanna and I have in common is that we are both the oldest child in our families and are expected to mentor our younger siblings. This is a pretty unique expectation for Aireanna and I because a lot is expected of us in order to create the best possible path for our younger siblings while achieving our own goals. Aireanna’s leadership roles differ from my own

Cielo spoke about how a key aspect to her life is to respect elder figures such as her grandparents. This is a general expectation but something I can definitely relate to. Growing up in my household it seemed if an elder figure such as my grandfather made a recommendation to improve our lives that recommendation would be applied to our lives immediately. It appears that was the case with Cielo’s family as well. Cielo spoke about how in her early life she spent a lot of time with her grandparents because her parents had her at a young age and they needed time to shape their careers. While Cielo spent significant time under her grandparents watch she virtually had to respect her elders. My situation was quite different. While I was told to respect elders I never had to spend significant time with an elder person. In my case my parents told me to have respect and be grateful toward my grandparents and any other elder figures that are going to be apart of my life as elder figurers often have had difficult journeys through life but also have the most wisdom to give. I didn’t spend as much time with elders as Cielo however, I can relate to her social expectation of respecting elders as I feel receiving wisdom from a respected elder person only helps in life. Cielo and I both have an expectation when it comes to respecting elders however, those expectations come in different ways with Cielo having spent an enormous