Cultural Background

Cultural Family Background

Liberty University

Rachel Trimble

Abstract

The life of any one person cannot be summed up into charts or certain number of pages, but to get a better idea of whom a person truly is, you must look at the family.  The life of a twenty-two year old woman will be discovered in the following pages.  In order to discover the future of this woman, we must examine the past: the heritage of her ancestors, the interviews of her grandparents, and history of the family. 

The Jacks-Trimble family is a white upper middle class Anglo-Saxon family.  By definition the word Anglo-Saxon means “any white person whose native language is English and whose cultural affiliations are those common to Britain and the US.” (Anglo-Saxon, 2012).   My mother’s maiden name is Jacks.  The Jacks family is of Irish heritage, and the Trimble family is of German heritage. 

            Before Ireland’s conversation to Christianity in the 5th century the early Irish were people of little common identity.  They coined the name Gaidel meaning ‘savages’ to the people of Britain.  During which time the Ireland consisted of hundreds of kingdoms and a few over-kingdoms.  This period of Christianity led way to amazing works of art and enlightened manuscripts such as Book of Kells. (Irish Culture, 2012). In the 9th and 10th century Vikings invaded Ireland, under which rule cities were created and political centralization.  However, unity would not fully begin to take place until 1169 when Ireland was again invaded by the Anglo-Normans, the beginning of Ireland’s long, unhappy ties with England.  (Irish, 2004).  The south and east of Ireland were the first to become captured by the Anglo-Norman’s, and the rougher northern and western side of Ireland resisted more successfully until the beginning of the 17th century.  (Irish, 2005). 

            While the Protestant...