Identity Essay : My Cultural Identity

Traditions are common part of culture and religion in the world today; almost everyone has a tradition that they follow. The traditions you practice can be new and only just have started with your generation or the generation before yours. The traditions could also have been old, spanning many generations before your generation and your parents’ generation. Some traditions could be small and last for a few generations; an example of this would be like a yearly family cookout. One would invite their families to their house or local park to have fun and eat. It could be something small

“Dale, dale, dale, No pierdas el tino; Porque si lo pierdes, Pierdes el camino”. The classic piñata song that is sung at parties. It translates to “Go, go, go, don't lose your aim; because if you lose it, you will lose your path.” The phrase ties in with my identity because of my cultural background and experiences at parties. Who am I? What is my cultural identity? The questions that have me trying my best not to have an existential crisis. I am a Mexican American, my parents were born in Jalisco and I was born in California. As for my cultural identity, I am a NSHS student that has been shaped by music, technology, and sports.

My family and I have never been the family to take trips outside of the country therefore I haven’t seen different cultures outside of the United States; however I come from an Anglo father and Hispanic mother therefore I have been able to experience their cultures first hand. Both of my parents, especially my Hispanic mother showed us all very nurturing, caring and loving affection that has stuck with me; this is definitely what shapes my identity. Students with different backgrounds and disabilities come into our classrooms with a wide variety of talents and skills; some student’s skills are just very different from those of another student. If one student’s skills don’t meet the skills of the highest level student in the classroom they often are not noticed, because of my identity I will recognize and congratulate every student who improves in one way or another. From personal experiences that I have seen I believe that teachers need to be able to recognize the way students with disabilities act and perform in the classroom. Teachers must also be able to find ways to help these students stay engaged and continue learning; this will help the students and teachers within today’s school system.

Throughout the different cultures around the world, there are many traditions that have been in place for many years. These traditions have been passed down from generation to generation and are looked at as being normal in these cultures. To the United States, and other parts of the world, some of these traditions are looked at as being crazy, bizarre, and even strange. There are many different cultures and unique traditions associated with them, but these are 5 interesting traditions found around the world.

“ I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact I am black: It means that I must . . . respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”- June Jordan. As life goes on I am learning that we do not always get what we want. In my English class, we read two passages; one was a novel called “ Two Kinds ” by Amy Tan and the other was a poem called “ Legal Alien “ by Pat Mora. The text “ Two Kinds “ is about the conflict between a mother and daughter; her mother just wants her daughter to triumphant in the world, while her daughter wants to just be herself. The other text “ Legal Alien “, is about the speaker describing being bicultural, and how she is

What is my cultural identity? I’ve asked myself this question so many times a day. It was very hard for me to define my cultural identity because in my eyes I was an average teen and nothing about my family seemed traditional. We ate the basic meals, we didn't celebrate much besides birthdays and holidays, and we attended a local church. However, i put more thought into it and wondered, everyone has their own unique way right? And mine had to be custom. Culture can be your beliefs, traditions, appearance, religion anything that makes you YOU. Culture is the system of knowledge shared by a relatively large group of people. Your culture can differ from many others and could also be similar but my choice of culture is appearance. My cultural identity

My life is like ripped jeans, it is almost complete, but there's parts missing that I can’t and don’t know how to fill. An African American who only knows her American side, but struggles with knowing the background of her African heritage. Whose parents are also African American and are in the same position. Representing me being African American, but not fully educated of who I am. Although, I don’t know my African side, in the future I can learn more about it, as for now my culture includes my customs/values, food, values, and ethnicity. The preparation of reading different poems and stories about other people’s culture helped me learn about my culture and myself because I seen the struggles people go through with knowing their true self, but by experiencing daily events in life, you are always changing and your self-identity shows the qualities of who you are. My occasion was assigned to write about my culture, I know I need to use what I learned by reading other poems and stories to describe my culture.

My cultural identity is different from a lot of other people. My race and religion might be the same, but the things I do individually is unique. My mindset and the way I think makes a huge difference from most people. The aspects I was already aware of were the most obvious ones, like race, religion, etc. I really didn’t think about my cultural identity until we started the lesson on it in class.

My Bubbe is sitting on the couch playing on her ipad, my mom is texting her work friend as she pets my cats and I am cheering my dad on as he tries to clear his video game level, this is a typical scene at the Cottingham-frye house. My family is a very laid back chill group of people who value each others thoughts and opinions and I am glad to have them home every time I walk in my house. We all love each other and we listen to EVERYTHING about each other's day no matter how silly it may have been. I love my family and would not trade them for the world, no matter how weird they can get.

My Cultural Identity is my life, my life is more about what I do in my life. My cultural identity is about what I do in life like I love sports, and that in my cultural because everyone in my family played a sport in life. Baseball is my favorite sport because that’s something my pops taught me how to play. My family is raised in the country so we love to go trail ride and we love to ride fourwheelers and all. I’m from and was raised lafayette, louisiana. I was raised in the country but I have some city in me, but most is country.

I was born on the big island in waimea on April 5th, 2001. My parents let my grandfather name me. He said he wanted my name to mean something fierce so that’s how he came up with Kamana. A few things that make up my cultural identity is my beliefs, what i like to do, and my friends. I know there is more to me then i realize right now I can’t really figure it out, I never had both of my parents in my life for that long so they never really taught me about my culture. I feel like my life's a garden with a bunch of undiscovered plants, just waiting to be found.

Thinking about the events that have brought me to where I am today, the most appropriate model of identity development for myself would be the White Racial Identity Development: A Descriptive Model developed by Sue and Sue (2016). This model consists of seven phases: Naivete, Conformity, Dissonance, Resistance and immersion, Introspective, Integrative awareness, and Commitment to antiracist action. I believe that I am now entering or transitioning into the Integrative awareness phase. At this point I have learned a lot about myself and thought a lot about what it means to be White and how my life has been impacted by being White. Through the questioning and learning in the previous phase, I have a much better understanding of how racism is still at play in our society today and how I can personally make changes in my own life and on a larger scale. I think in the career path I have chosen, I will have plenty opportunities to help advocate and be an ally to those that are different from me. I have become much more comfortable having conversations with people who are different from me and want to continue learning.

While looking upon my personal culture and my family’s culture in an attempt to find appropriate dishes for this assignment, it became apparent to me that I have no definite culture. Whereas I have lived in Canada my whole life, my family’s background has engaged me in varying cultures, though I have never felt truly attuned to one culture. On the other hand, my father is a first generation Canadian, his parents both from Scotland. Though aware of my Scottish origins and my grandparents’ migration to Canada, Scottish culture has never been explicitly celebrated amongst those in my family. Furthermore, my family previously migrated from Ireland during the Irish famine, resulting in Irish culture to also represented in my family’s culture. Variously, my mother’s side of the family has lived in Canada for many generations, but I do not consider myself as being authentically Canadian. Accordingly, throughout my childhood, I was never encouraged to celebrate an explicit culture. Furthermore, religion was never prominent in my life either, as my parents decided against baptizing any of my siblings and me, as per the family tradition, because they wished for us to have religious freedom. However, because of the rest of my family’s religion, as well as my background, my family has always celebrated Christian holidays, though I have never been to church for a reason other than a wedding. I find that without any cultural ties from my family’s history and practices, that the culture I

As we grow older we see how our culture influences us . How we’re judged by our skin color , and by our race. If you’re white you're privileged , and racist . If you’re black you’re a thug . If you're Asian you’re yellow and intelligent . If you’re a Muslim you’re a terrorist . This is how the world sees us and that's how we see it , but that doesn't have to be the case. “ We all have unique identities that we develop within our cultures , these identities are not fixed or static. This is the reason why stereotypes do not hold up.”(What is culture Identity) Our culture does not define who we are. It’s what we take from it that defines us and makes us who we are , but we're so blind to see that we have labels on us since day one.

These are many reasons why my cultural identity is influenced in so many reasons like my family or the food i grew up eating.Also to basically sum up what my cultural identity is for all you lazy people is food and family go hand in hand keeping me true to my home roots and religion keeps me going in the right way and making the right decisions.So..now you know who this story is really about, me , a normal looking kid with an extensive back story. This is my story and it just keeps going and going because i keep true to who i am and always will no one can change me and that's