Family background is essential to any understanding of yourself.

Our family provides us with the roots of identity through genetics, culture, spirit and emotion. Understanding our family background helps us to understand ourselves.
Family background is important in help you to define who you are because you are part of everything around you. Values and qualities that are learned and gained from our parents and grandparents mould an individual into the person they are today.

In the book Looking for Alibrandi Josephine’s Italian background plays a major role in who she really is. Her family have strong Italian feelings and traditions. Although they are living in Australia they still keep a lot of Italian traditions. This has a major impact on Josephine. Josephine understands the same values and qualities as her mother and grandmother. She has grown up admiring her mother as an Italian, however, Josephine is part of two cultures and i...