Personal Narrative: My Perspective Of Cultural Identity

When I think about my cultural identity I find myself resorting to the word “normal”. I grew up in a town where everyone looked the same, everyone worshiped the same God, and everyone was in the same economic class. It’s interesting to really break down my individual cultural pieces to find that actually there are so many differences that I was simply too naïve to see. The culture that one grows up can be so different from one household the next, that there really isn’t a “normal” culture out there.

“Good times in your culture makes good memories”. Good memories can connect to your culture even if it’s good or bad. Your culture can have many different things about it . There’s different kinds of cultures. Some people are dedicated to their culture. People do things in their culture many different ways and some people do things the same way if they have the same culture. My cultural identity is interesting because of all the memories, food, and a specific t.v show.

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.

Allan Rufus wrote “Life is like a game of chess. To win you have to make a move. Knowing which move to make comes with insight and knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are accumulated along the way. We become each and every piece within the game called life!” To me this quote means when you know yourself you can foresee the decisions that you need to make to be beneficial. As you grow older you learn and grow and down the road you get to know yourself on a deeper level. Everything I do, what I see, what I believe in, how I act is and the values that I hold is what makes me who I am. The more I am in synch with my behavior and characteristics the better in tune I am to understanding

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".

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

Boom-bara- boom-boom- bara-boom-boom- bara-boom-boom-click-click. The sound of the drums is incredible, what captures everyone 's attention is the sense you have when you hear the rhythm and beat of any song. Music is a big part of my life and my culture. Mexican American culture demonstrates that I am someone who was born in Mexico but lives in America. I had no clue of my culture until I was about 10 years old. When I was growing up I always thought that I was born here but it seems that I wasn 't so I had to understand who I was and where I came from. Its interesting how I discovered the Mexican Culture because I found my culture through the music that I would listen to. Mexican Culture demonstrates a great amount of unity in families when music is presented. Any type of Spanish music connects Mexicans with their family, community, and culture and it influences many families to cherish the value of their culture even more.

Hispanic culture does and always has interested more than any other culture of the world. Traditions, architecture, beliefs, music, and various other components that make up culture have always seemed ideal and interesting. America has been and is great to me due to its vast freedoms and somewhat accepting melting-pot culture, but with so many aspects of culture surrounding me, I have often felt overwhelmed and lacking nationality. I am interested to see how differently people hold onto their cultural identity and how they feel about their country. I also would like to see how this feeling is different to the various countries and people that speak the Spanish language. On a family vacation, I went to Mexico and partially observed how people

There are so many different types of cultures around the world. There are different types of music, sports, and food that I enjoy on a day to day basis. Being Mexican American makes me appreciate all the wonderful traditions that make my life a little better. Traditions make my family come together, and I love my family because they are really important to me.

Almost everyone listens to music and people tend to have their own taste or style of music. My taste of music has changed throughout middle school to highschool, however it is not too drastic. The style of music went from ultimate fangirl of boy bands such as One Direction or Five Seconds of Summer, to listening to Frank Ocean and The Weeknd. Not only that, but I’ve also started to dig in with my ethnicity and started listening to spanish music on my own time. My experiences at parties and being around my family with them blasting banda sparked my interest to listen to spanish music. Listening to spanish music also helped with my spanish since unfortunately, I am taking french instead of spanish for my language course. These changes have made me love and appreciate both spanish and english music, which is an important part of my life.

The front range of Colorado has a large diversity of cultural populations represented. Therefore, as a professional counselor it is my responsibility to educate myself on the cultures I am likely to be working with. Since there is such a diverse population there is no way I am going to know everything about everyone’s culture. Although, I do know the cultures of the majority populations that frequent the agency I am currently working. Since I am working with populations I would be aware of the societal issues they are facing and the oppression they have been and are up against. Therefore, this allows me to immerse myself into their culture, learning and seeing firsthand the oppression and prejudices they face in the community in which we

What is my Cultural Identity? When I try to look into that subject I come up blank. I have no clue. The things that fly in and out of my mind are ethnicity, religion, family traditions that have been practiced for as long as we can trace... Given this was before I actually learned anything about it. And after school that day I wanted to see what others thought it was. So I went to the most reliable place ever, the Internet and proceed to look around. Don't do that, you’ll only get more confused; Wait for your teacher to explain it. There’s a good chance you’ll do better in the long run. And is wasn’t until after all the lessons and assignments I realized I had learned more about know who I am than I had in my entire life. Cultural identity

I was born in the summer of 1964, to lower middle class parents, my mother was divorced with having left three young sons behind with her first husband. My father owned a very popular gas station and repair shop, by birth being the result of a torrid love affair, this topic remained in the gossip pool well into my twenties. I was kept in the dark until Jr. high school, my mother was forced to tell me part of her truth, after the principal sent a note home. My mother suffered from depression and substance abuse as a coping mechanism to sooth her pain. At the age of two my mother gave birth to my sister, although, my mother loved us, I believe her pain tortured her relentlessly. Soon my father choose alcohol to numb his

“You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.” The famous quote by Barbara Streisand is the true way of discovering one's culture. There is a diversity of things that makes up a person’s culture, especially in the Jewish culture. People often say that I do not look like what I say I am. However, looks are only half of one’s personal cultural identity and how it identifies them. When you are a Jew, many things can define a person, from religious traditions to the food we put on our table at dinner can only tell a person so much about their culture.

Skating is a main part of my cultural identity, but so is riding dirt bikes and quads. Aside from the fun activity’s, I have more important things to do, such as getting good grades so I can get into college, and being respectful to others and myself.