My Cultural Identity : My Culture Identity

Each individual has a specific culture that can they can use to identify oneself. I discovered my own cultural identity with the help of many aspects I have faced throughout my life. Culture is an important role in everyone’s life. Culture can be discovered by seeing how different an individual is from someone else. It can also be seen even when you don’t realize it. My family have been a major impact on discovering my cultural identity. My cultural identity would not exist if it weren’t for previous experiences I have encountered up until this point. My cultural identity is involved in many aspects of my life because of how my family influences my culture, how my view on culture differs from everyone else, and how society views me.

My cultural identity, as I know is Mexican American because both my parents are born in Mexico and I was born here. I can also be defined as a Chicana because that is another way used to call a Mexican American. My culture can be seen in so many different ways like for example it can be seen in food, music, religion, dance, art, festivals, and even more. Most of these traditions have changed a little bit over time as they were brought to the U.S. What I mean by that is that some of those traditions were brought from Mexico, and had a little change into them because they were combined with some traditions that have already been here in the U.S.

Most people call me Colby, but on the field i'm know as number 40. Soccer has been a part of my life since I was 3, my 12 years of experience have influenced how I act, what I eat and most aspects of my life-like who I hang out with and what I dislike. In the United states especially, sports are a huge part of everyone's cultural identity. With all this in mind I would call my cultural identity a soccer game. It can change in a blink of the eye but is consistent through life.My family is like the other players, education is like the field and my hobbies are like the ball.

What is my cultural identity? Personally, I don’t think I am completely assured on what my cultural identity is, but I can do my best on explaining it. However, I won’t get started on that yet, first I’ll explain the occasion of me learning about my identity. At almost the beginning of the year, it was announced in our English class that we would be doing an essay on our cultural identities. When my teacher announced this I thought to myself, “What in the world is a cultural identity, or even my cultural identity?” In these months, we have gotten to learn the definition of culture, and what it means to us, individually., I believe that culture means a group of people that share the same customs, way of life, and beliefs. Also, over these last couple of months we have been reading texts all about people knowing and understanding their cultural identities, meanwhile I still didn’t understand my own. All I know is that I was born on February 11, 2002, I like movies and music, and my mom is from Chile and my Dad is from Virginia. Now that didn’t feel like enough for me to write on, but then I started thinking about all of the cultural differences that my parents have had raising me as a person, and how those have all combined to make me. In my short 15 years of life, the culture clashes have sometimes affected me on my thoughts and opinions, which I’ll talk about later on. As well as how movies and music have affected my perspectives and opinions.

Charles F. Glassman once said, “In a few seconds, we judge another person and think we know them. When, the person we’ve lived with the longest, we still don’t know very well- ourselves.” Writing about my values has gave me a better understanding of who I am. I now understand the several ways my culture has shaped me to become who I am. My cultural autobiography will allow me to reveal who I truly am by understanding my cultural identity. My cultural identity is the combination of my worldview and values as well as my position in the eight microcultures.

When I think of the word “cultural identity”, I think of myself, and what makes up who I am as a person. My cultural identity influences everything about me, from the moment I wake up, to the minute I rest my head on my pillow at night. My culture influences the way I eat, speak, worship, and interact with people. However, I am not only affected by my own culture, but others’ culture as well. I am fortunate to have an extremely rich heritage, and I couldn’t be prouder of my cultural identity.

“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.

Culture is a way of life of a group of people, the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next. Culture can be seen in our food, religion, family structure, and more. I was born and raised in Las Vegas, NV. My parents were born in Mexico. Well my whole family were born in Mexico. We are just any hispanic family. My cultural identity is pretty much the basic hispanic culture. We do everything that involves having fun and being with family.

The three artifacts that I will be bring in my cajita that representing my cultural identity is a Bible, kickboxing hand wraps, and hair pick. The reason why these artifacts describe me is because the Bible symbolize being free from worldly way, it help to guide me in important decisions since I am one of does people who second guest their selves, its help me to point out what I am doing wrong and to accept myself for who I am. Since grow up in America and being African American I heard that I was not beautiful because of my feature that I not going to be any and that their not a future for people who look like me. I heard all of this from both the media and community. However, two year ago when I starts reading and listening to the Bible

¨Pereme-what? That is the weirdest and longest last name i've ever heard of! Where do people get last names like that?¨ My answer? Well, my grandfather is from Siberia, but my family just consider ourselves Russian. Actually not long ago my dad had told me about a city in Russia called Peremyshl, my great great grandparents, as I was told, are from there, Peremyshl is in the Kaluga Oblast near Moscow. And because of my ethnic background, I go to my church's youth, our youth really likes to go and hang out at the park or go someplace else and play volleyball.

I am Zaka Hashmat Siddiqi and I am Asian belong from Middle Asia. I am Muslim and my religion is Islam. I am from Pakistan, Sind, Karachi by the specific area from Shah Faisal Colony no. 2. The main values, norms, and traditions that I belongs to Asian typical culture more into strict rules and regulation such as respect our religion and follow all the important instructions that I learned from my family, friends and teachers. Many Asian people follow their norms by which they belongs but many of them are similar to many culture such as caring, helping people, respect to children's and elder. Religion is also the most important thing to me as I got teaching from my parent and my elders.

Though feminism and the feminist theory are often construed as the same philosophy, the two are related, yet different concepts. Feminism is defined as, “the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes” (Merriam Webster Dictionary). In turn, a feminist is an individual who believes that men and women should be equal politically, economically, culturally, and socially (Definitions of Branches of Feminist). However, the feminist theory is not simply the belief that the sexes should be equal or that women have been historically subjected to lower status and treatment than men. Rather, the feminist theory is the culmination of many beliefs about men, women, and gender roles; mainly, the feminist theory addresses how gender roles are unequal and how gender influences aspects of everyday life (“Feminist Literary Theory”) (Moffitt). In this way, the feminist theory can be used to analyze a variety of texts, including the poems, the “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood and “It’s a Woman’s World” by Eavan Boland. Both poems display connections to the feminist theory, particularly in how gender roles and inequality between the sexes influence the poets’ purposes to address male and female stereotypes and encourage change.

Currently, there are four groups of important objects/ideas that make up who I am, and represents how everyone else sees me. I believe that all of these things together are what form a majority of my identity to myself and others. When an object from one of these groups are removed, a big part of my identity may be changed, and so would the relations of the other objects. When all of these objects are removed, my entire identity would be changed completely, maybe a little resemblance would be around, but there would be nothing that really defines me as me. The four groups that represent me are my culture, technology, aspects of myself, and my interests. I will now explain what are included in these groups, and their significance to structure my identity.

I’m a 15 year old Latina that haven’t yet came across to knowing what my culture identity is. The only thing I know about myself is that I grew up drawing. Another thing I also know is that I always get mistaken with being a filipino or White. No one really knows what race I am. Only I know because I know where I come from. I’m not really expecting myself to know myself because I still got a long way to figure out who I am going to become, but for a fact I know I wanna improve myself everyday and not get bitter. Since the only thing I know about myself is that I enjoy Art i’m going to talk about how that identifies with my culture identity.

My cultural identity is African American. I believe this because I am christian and the way I dress, what type of music I listen to. My first body paragraph is illustrated by my traditional dinner, which is Turkey on thanksgiving each year. My second body paragraph is illustrated by my favorite movie, because it divides blacks and whites (stereotyped) by who is more wealthy. The movie is separated by what the hood is, and what isn't the hood. My cultural identity is nice and well because of the choices i’ve made, which can be illustrated in my joining the Help Yourself Program, so that I was, able to go on the HBCU college tour. My choices define me, by becoming a cheerleader and joining the Knightingales step team.