Personal Narrative: My Cultural Identity

Throughout my life, I have struggled with accepting my cultural identity. My parents were born and raised in India, but I was born here, in the United States, and hence, born an American citizen.

I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. My family was catholic and so I was taught to pray and by the age of 13 I had all my sacraments. For most of my life I lived the downtown area of the main city where my mother and her family had also grown up. I considered myself very lucky because even though our economic security was not the best as I grew up, my mother always strived for me to receive the best education she could afford. As a result, I learned to speak English from a very young age and then French, I learned to play the guitar and also to paint. I also took embroidery and etiquette classes and so on. Because of the location where we lived, I also took advantage of many cultural interactions with people from other

The cultural background that I have come from is a rural agricultural farm. Farming is an industry that is not very easy and through working on my family farm I have come in contact with many struggles and hardships. I have also had hardships through the loss of loved ones. Having to deal with many of these trials in my life has helped me to become a stronger woman. I have also been able to show more dedication, hard work, commitment, and enthusiasm towards my leadership roles and the interactions that I have with others within my involvement of my job, clubs, and volunteer work.

What is culture? Culture is the idea of what is wrong or right, the concept of what is acceptable within our society. Culture serves us as a guide, taking us to the "right way" and helping us to make sense of things that surrounds us. There are many different cultures around the world. A lot of them are similar in specific ways and others are just completely different, this difference explains why we think that people from different backgrounds are "weird".

My culture identity is changing without control being influenced by so much. We have people who follow trends and those who think they control their culture but the truth is they don’t. Since we were born we began to get influenced by our family,from them buying us certain toys or making us join specific sports which later on influences how we think and how we feel about those things.

According to Germany Kent, he said “When you start loving yourself and respecting your time and energy, things will change. Get to know your worth, and your value will go up.” Knowing oneself is a bit difficult but I believe if we want things to change in the world it begins with each individual. To know yourself you need to love and respect yourself, time and energy said Kent. When you know your worth, you will be able to stand for who you are, choose rights and work well with others We can only love ourselves when we know who we are, our self-worth and our cultural identity. Understanding my cultural identity entails my values, my world view and the eight microculture.

I am marked by two disparate cultures. Although being of mixed heritage from Spain and Turkey is an unwavering truth, living in the United States at a physical distance from these countries gives me the privilege to freely curate who I am. I shape my sense of self with the values I retain—and reject—from these cultures. To me, Spain represents a union of cultures bound together by a passion for art and an inclination to think visually. I see Turkey as the scientific, freethinking mind, as it has been a Muslim country with a secular democracy. My sense of identity relies on the self-constructed balance between dichotomies. My layered heritage draws me to lace meaning into their work, such as Ramiro Gomez, Tibor Kalman, Bill Viola, and Glenn

My beliefs on my culture is that it's powerful and hardworking. My people are often seen as criminals or lazy, but we are taught to always put our best foot forward on everything and taught to welcome friends and anyone in need as a family. My culture is filled with food that shows the colors of my flag--the flag that we are proud of. In this culture, we don't have just one but multiple. We have indigenous; we [are] half Afro-Mexican; we have many cultures. We respect both living and death. We are family and when we need to unite, we

When asked about their culture these days, it seems as if Americans only respond in two ways; either they detail their rich background and diverse way of life, or they simply reply, ‘I don’t know, I’m just white.’ Unfortunately, due to a massive culture disconnection, numerous Caucasians in the U.S. respond the second way.

Walking through the stale airport air again with my dad, mom, and little brother made me realize that I was leaving my home country Germany behind for the second time. See it wasn’t my choice to constantly move between the U.S. and Germany it was the military making the calls for my family to move around. Making me constantly go through this cycle like eating your favorite food everyday for a month and end up getting sick of it. I was so unprepared for the hurdles that where about to come that I would end up hitting my foot as I try to jump over the obstacles that were in my way. See I was born in Munich Germany and I am mixed with African American and Bosnian.

I have lived in two regions of the country that have their own sub-cultures. I. Even though I lived in Michigan for most of my life and have lived in Florida in the years that mold who you are. As a Spartan I believe I will bring a person that doesn’t just like to scratch the service on topics, but a person that digs deeper.

From the moment I was born me and my twin sister were always seen as a pair. We did everything together; we had the same friends, we ate the same food, we drove the same car, we were on the same athletic teams. We did everything together for fifteen years. However, one day I decided that I wanted to create my own identity. After playing soccer for ten years on the same team with my twin, I finally decided I was going to do something by myself. I decided to switch over and conquer the game of golf without my sister by my side.

My identities are complicated and hard to explain so the best way I can do at this point is do kind of a free form of the two and then explain them the best way I possibly can. My first identity would be the blue collar professional one (Mr. Coverdale). he is well-spoken, poised, well-mannered, and knowledgeable. The second identity (Henry). He would be the short tempered, disrespectful, and just do not care about anyone or anything but himself and takes no bull from anyone. They get along more than they disagree with each other helping each other out in a way that things get done in the right way, but they do bump head from time to time. The situation in which that happens has to be the most challenging and conflicting. sometimes one is entirely

I come from a small rural farm where I was born and raised all my life and where I grew up with two loving parents and one sister. Ever since I was a young girl, religion has always been a big part of my life because I was born and raised Catholic. My mothers’ side of the family is German Catholic decent and my fathers’ race is German and Cherokee Indian. Even though they are mainly German combined I have always found it interesting that I have Native American blood running through my veins. It is obvious that my parents are both Caucasian and were middle class individuals when I was growing up. I would now classify my parents to be in the higher class because they are worth more now then twenty-five years ago. Even though my parents have more money now than what they did when growing up on the farm, a strong work ethic was important to my parents. I am thankful they instilled this within me because I have always worked hard for everything in my life and I know that this will payoff for me one day. My parents also told me that education will get me further in life and it has. I am the first of my family to graduate from college let alone getting my masters as well. So when looking

I am a 17 year old Muslim girl.My culture believes in ALLAH,we believe that he is our creator and we chose to believe in him.We pray 5 times a day and go to our church every saturday and sundays.We have certain rules and regulations that we follow.If you have beliefs and goals than how are you going to reach anywhere.You need a path that can guide you to where you want reach.Therefore,I belief in “ALLAH”,he guides me be going on the right track.I was raised in three different homes.My first home is in Mogadishu,Somalia,which is where I was born.Mogadishu is a small city in Somalia.I had a pleasing and memorable memories when I was growing up.But my family and I had to move because of the violence and brutality that was happening in my hometown.Therefore,we moved to Kenya because we have many family there.In Kenya,Africa we lived in a 4 bedroom apartment.We had this routine to go to two different schools everyday.One was a English school and the other was a Muslim school.We went to two different schools because my parents didn't want us to forget our culture and religion.They wanted us to be educated in English and in our culture.My mother owned a Somali restaurant and my father was a social worker.We were happy,but my parents wanted us kids to get a better education and bright