Sometimes, gaining knowledge involves disproving a judgment call concerning a group of people or a person. Arguments for diversity and open-mindedness is significant since we inherit biological genes from our parents. Likewise, one’s behavior and habits influenced by culture and traditions. Religious interludes plaguing one’s persona and can have a substantial impact on career choices, interpersonal and social relationships, marriage, and family stability. Herein lies a study of the psychology of personality. In the past, and now, scholars studying variances of individuality desire to understand unchaste thoughts, impulses, behavior, and temperament. Within this, the effort given in both research and practice helps in comprehending abnormalities …show more content…
Gerald Howard

Gerald, a forty-nine-years-old Haitian American, married for seventeen years, to a Sandy, a Black American, with two sons from this union. He and his family reside in Southern Californian, all formerly of Louisiana. Additionally, four-years-ago, Gerald developed a relationship with a Dominican woman (Cindy). After fathering two children out of wedlock (girl, age 3, boy, 8-months), he relocated them to Southern California so that the youngest child could obtain American citizenship.

Family lineage: Gerald, the oldest son born to his parents, with a younger sister (46-years-old Attorney and real estate investor/property owner), and younger brother (25-years-old college student). Additionally, an older brother (50-years-old) from his father’s extramarital affair. Gerald’s parents grew up under the stratified three of the Haitian caste systems; where birth rights, skin color, and physical attributes determined one’s social and economic position. (Lobb, 1940, p. 23). His mother is light skinned, a mulatto affranchi, belonged to the elite, privileged urban and grands blancs and a former slave owner. His father darker skinned affranchise bourgeois (middle-class citizen), though never a slave, held more social status than most of his social upbringings (Lobb, 1940, p. …show more content…
His mother, an accountant, remains active during tax time, and his father, a retired U.S. military engineer, whom currently oversee their daughter’s properties. For Gerald’s parents, the Haitian culture, and traditions, education, social, and economic status, religious, and folklore remain