One day wealthy, another day derpived

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The Economic Modernization in China affected my family. The modernization of 1976 made my family lose everything. The chaos leads my family to move from a big fortune to a simple nothing. Due to the incident, my grandfather experienced harsh times because he got

cheated by his own family and still had to maintain his own household. At that time, my father took over the family, so he became the head of the family, and decided to move to Venezuela for good in search of a better life. After my family moved, the sun started shining because everything got better after the nightmare.

My grandfather’s sister was the main reason why he lost everything. Due to the crisis in China, she was scared to be left with nothing. Her parents did not inherent much for her because she was a girl, and they assumed she would get married. She, from selfishness, stole everything from my grandfather and left him with not even a single penny, though only a shelter. Since they did not see this happening, my grandfather had sold the house where they were living, which was considered a mansion, and search for a small house. Therefore, the family including my grandmother, aunts and uncle, and my father had some resources to survive with.

The crisis was still present, families were still affected, but my family fought to overcome it

. My father felt the need to help the family since my grandfather was too old to work. Due to the crisis, my father did not finish school. He went out and worked to help the family endure. When my family was economically stable again, everything in the house changed. My aunts got inattentive to keep the work, since they worked at the house stitching fabric. My aunts started focusing on playing Maijoh, Chinese dominoes, and they spent the whole day playing without notice, the work-time was gone when they started to get tired. My father was not able to speak up, since he is the youngest child of the family, and never said a word. More than ever, my father was scared of being in an economic crisis again, so he went out in search of job where he could maintain the family because he saw that stitching was not a choice to support them.

The economic crisis settled, and families were more stable. Seeing that China was no longer in chaos and my family was in better conditions, they decided to move to across the world. Venezuela was the land where my father thought they would have for a better life. My father started studying again, but he as well did not finish because he observed that people had successful businesses, or at least he would earn more capital than working for somebody else. After going through the economic crisis in China, my father was attentive that going through such thing was really worrisome, and started a business with my uncle making Piñatas and selling party supplements for kids. The store had been an enormous adjustment for my father since it was his first time owning his own business. Furthermore, the party supplement store was doing great in the heart of Valencia. Therefore, my father decided to have another store. Due to the experience he had in China, it reminded him that people needed resources and supplies such as food, and household supplements, so he decided to open a supermarket.

The Economic Development in China was a big transformation for my family because my grandfather was the head of the family. He went through the most complicated time. My family was so wealthy one day, and the next day everything was gone! They had all these changes and emotions that made them realize that nothing is more important than a family being together. After the incident of the Economic Development, my grandfather taught my father that money is not the key to maintain the family because you will never get all the money in the world, and money does not guarantee the happiness of a family. My father taught my siblings and I to have a regard for my grandfather, not only because he is the elder of the family, but because he is the hero of the family. Until now, I still regard my grandfather as the family hero. Even though, he is not here in this world anymore, my family and I would not have the knowledge of the importance of what a family really is without him.