You are a retired famous actor-u write a memoir about your childhood, you were superbrat, how your parents brought u up

Super-brats are children eight and a bit years old who already worth their weight in gold. Once they were audition for a starring role and as a result were lucky to get it. These little actors of great promise are used to have their photographs taken and waves adorably to the camera. The most stunningly successful wunderkinds are able to act normally on demand and the acting dives them more of an open mind, especially when they feel that shooting is their cup of tea. Film fans like watching their acting on the screen.Usually they give a magnificent performance as a leading actor or a co-star. They make the most of the role and bring to life on the screen any character. Usually because they are cast to advantage the brats outshine everybody else. And apparently the film career earns them rather huge fortune which is valued at millions of dollars. The most disturbing aspect is that self-made millionaires get too used to actors privileges. They start showing off because of the fuss being made. They always feel under incredible amount of pressure and like it or not but it can ruin their life. A lot of them have great difficulty with their film-star image and restrictions it places on their wardrobe. They can’t wear their favorite football jerseys, anoraks and trainers when they have to attend “special occasions”. It isn’t risk free career especially when they have unscrupulous casting agent who can push children to nervous breakdowns, they make children feel inadequate to gain money and to make profits. And of course million fortune can leave a super-brat a sad and trouble teenager. That’s why many parents don’t hesitate to give advice to those from the entourage of a star-child. To come in contact with a child you should have a sensible approach to bringing up a film-star. It’s important to be determined that a child should save money for his college education. It’ll be good for a child to pursue other interests apart from acting when he is not on set.

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16. Studying folklore. Teacher’s opinion on holidays, traditions

Folklore comprises the unrecorded traditions of a people.

Whenever, out of habit or inclination, the folk indulge in songs and dances, in ancient games, the merry-making, to mark the passing of the year or the usual festivities whenever in many callings the knowledge, experience, wisdom, skill, the habits and practices of the past are handed down by example or spoken word, by the older to the new generations, without reference to book, print, or school teacher.

A simple and workable arrangement of the types of folklore may be based on three modes of existence: folklore is either verbal (proverbs, rhymes, myths, legends, folksong, ballads), partly verbal (superstitions, customs and festivals, folk dances and games) or nonverbal (folk gestures, folk music, folk architecture, handicrafts, folk costumes and foods). Customs involve both verbal and non-verbal elements that are traditionally applied in specific circumstances. But unlike superstitions, true customs do not involve faith in the magical results of such application. Thus, the “customs” that incorporate traditional belief in the supernatural should properly be classified as superstition.

A custom is a traditional practice, a mode of individual behaviour or a habit of social life — that is transmitted by word of mouth or imitation, then ingrained by social pressure, common usage and parental authority. When customs are associated with holidays they become calendar customs, and when such events are celebrated annually by a whole community they become festivals.

Celebrations of birthday anniversaries may begin as early as the first year in some families and they may continue through one’s entire life.

Courtship and engagement begin a new round of customs that lead to a grand final at marriage. Customs of the wedding itself are numerous and largely regulated by tradition. They include the dress of participants, the seating of guests, the choice of attendants, kissing the bride, throwing rice, passing the bride's shoe around for money, playing pranks on the married couple, and decorating the car. From the country with which we identify, we encounter folk traditions, customs, recipes, memories, sayings and allusions that in sum constitute a yearly folklore brew.

17. Retain identity, what makes u feel at home? What you miss abroad

Retaining identity is an acute problem nowadays. For example, Asians worry that they will lose their identity in favor of the Western way of life due to watching empty TV- as MTV and other channels producing only degradation. As very often teenagers come into the house and flop down in front of TV goggling at the box like beachcombers and find it the latest in hip.

But there is much more important problem of retaining identity when you leave your homeland in for another country. Many people travel and make travelling their way of life- constantly packing bags, moving things. When a person leaves the house and parents, the family is devastated. While a person is indifferent first, but very often people come back emaciated and shaking as he experienced a cultural shock and feels the heart is in the place of home. Very often people are rethinking their identity in a different country. Although the expectations of the community are that second and third generation immigrants will readily assimilate, more complex processes takes place. The young from many ethnic communities long to link up with their heritage and history. This rethinking usually follows a period of denial. When many people feel ashamed of t heir backgrounds and cringing with embarrassment if their parents are out with them. To be a part of a new modern world, you has to cast off these people who were 'backward' and 'uncivilized'.

These feelings are further exacerbated by rejections by the host community. When an immigrant child goes to school, his culture is often denigrated. The child feels a sense of annihilation and time makes this worse. So he reacts as being ashamed of himself and his customs. So all the experiences our children have there are about wiping out their heritage.

It is very important to retain identity, traditions, customs, folklore. A custom is a traditional practice, a mode of individual behavior or a habit of social life — that is transmitted by word of mouth or imitation, then ingrained by social pressure, common usage and parental authority. When customs are associated with holidays they become calendar customs, and when such events are celebrated annually by a whole community they become festivals. Folklore comprises the unrecorded traditions of a people. Whenever, out of habit or inclination, the folk indulge in songs and dances, in ancient games, the merry-making, to mark the passing of the year or the usual festivities whenever in many callings the knowledge, experience, wisdom, skill, the habits and practices of the past are handed down by example or spoken word, by the older to the new generations, without reference to book, print, or school teacher. Traditions, customs, sayings, memories represent our culture and unite people.

And it is very difficult for immigrants to retain their identity especially when they come across cultural shock.

To prevent it, people should try to find a comfortable place even abroad, a place where they can feel «at home». The 1^st thing that u make feel at home is safety, when a person can relax, and doesn’t feel the sense of annihilation, when he is not rejected by the host community.

One more trick to retain identity and prevent a cultural shock is to connect with people, to make friends. Of course, it takes much time and effort, but keep searching until you find the community that won’t make of you a distorted picture of yourself and won’ make you wiping out your own heritage.

And one more thing that will make you «feel at home» -it is your relatives, when you can hear them, when you can connect with them, you feel relaxed.

The same is about Russia. When immigrants come to Russia expecting here to see a lot of bears and snow everywhere, but are struck by the luxury of megalopolises. First of all, people feel euphoria- everything is new, different, interesting. But then the new becomes boring. The shock in Russia for immigrants from Europe, for instance, is that here everything is controlled-cameras, security guards everywhere and there they have more freedom.

When abroad I would miss first of all my relatives, friends who always promote me and cheer me up. Then I would also miss Russian food to which I got used to- borsch, pancakes. Russian traditions and customs is 1 more thing I would miss, our carnival with a lot of food and merry-making, Russian New Year festival in the family bosom. And 1 more thing I would miss abroad is Russian language as I would feel homesickness when I would hear Russian speech.

But anywhere you are, you should retain the identity not to realize one day that you are a distorted picture of yourself and you are still on the fringes of society.