Personal Narrative: My Surface Culture

When I hear the words ¨cultural identity¨ the first thing I think of is my religion, my ethnicity, and my family history. I never really looked back at my cultural identity, or (background) some might say. If I were to look back at my cultural identity I would say it’s like a stop light because It constantly changes. When my cultural identity changes it lowers my chances of doing what love which is running.

I have always found different cultures and diversity around the world very interesting and in the years to come a goal that I have set for myself is to travel and experience new things in different countries of the world. I have already traveled to a couple different places such as the Dominican Republic on a missions trip or to the Bahamas on vacation and already seen how much you can learn from people of different cultures and the diversity in different places. Throughout college especially I hope to have the opportunity to study abroad, whether it be on a medical mission to Africa, or studying tropical diseases in Costa Rica, or just studying a semester in a university in England, I believe all this can not only be eye opening but it can

The reason I included this picture to be in the capsule was to show how meaningful culture and tradition is. Culture is defined as the totality of learning socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects, and behavior. To me having a quincenera is a norm; norms are the conceptions of appropriate and expected behavior that are held by utmost members of the society. Nothing is superior than celebrating your culture, and to me having quincenera was a big part of my Mexican culture. I want the future society to know that continuing your culture is an amazing achievement. Not only that but, maybe to encourage our society from 100 years from now to continue following tradition considering that is what composes us our self. Self is a distinct identity that sets us apart from others. I want the society to view this picture and identify how in 2015 celebrating an event, had an extensive meaning and people should continue to follow their traditions. I want to generate our society from 100 years from now understand that, culture should never be changed and should live on. This item is used in the process of socialization by the reason that, during socialization, we learn the language of the culture we are born into as well as the roles we are to play in

My “outside” cultural influences I have: America is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world culturally. We have German-Americans speaking German, Filipino-Americans speaking Tagalog, Irish-Americans speaking Irish, Scandinavian-Americans speaking Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, etc., Welsh-Americans speaking Welsh, Japanese-Americans speaking Japanese, Iraqi-Americans speaking Arabian, Mexican-Americans speaking Spanish, and all Americans united in the common goal to create the best possible nation in accordance with our Constitution.

Many people writing this essay are going to talk about their religion or what race they are. But this is my personal cultural identity essay. I don't have a religion that I talk about or a race that I care about. My cultural identity is about sports, family and everything that makes me, me.

I am Scottish and English, but that means absolutely nothing to me. To me I am your classic white american boy. I am from Lake George New York, born in Glens Falls Hospital. I love to watch American football(My team is the NY Jets or the NY Giants) I am a big Gamer, and I LOVE to grill.

My American culture is special Because, I like to compete in fishing, and I have done really good.

Is usual to hear people associating common behaviors from a cultural background to how they expect an individual to act and react to certain situations. So I was really curious to see the results of the self-assessment comparing me to my cultural profile. I was born in Venezuela, and I lived there for most of my life, for that reason I wasn’t really surprised when my answers were almost the same to my cultural norm. The dimensions that I’m most similar to are in leading, trusting, disagreeing, evaluating, and persuading. In “leading”, the scale measures between egalitarian and hierarchical, and my cultural norm and individual answer is more hierarchical than egalitarian. Also, in “trusting” Venezuelans (including me) are definitely a relationship based society, where trust is built by affective connection, for example is very common that most of the business partnerships in Venezuela are made between friends and family rather than with individuals with

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.

“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.

Cultural identity doesn’t define who you are, but it does show where you came from. My cultural identity means more than the family I was born into. For example, I may have grown up in a few different states without my father, but that just shows where I came from, not who I am. My personal cultural identity is unique because I have all my memories in photo albums, enjoy having a good steak, and connect with music that gives a glimpse of what I’ve dealt with.

Hook------. There are over seven billion people in the world, and each of them have their own cultural identity. In order for one to understand my cultural identity, one must first understand what happens when Texan blood meets a Louisiana address. Through religion, band, and my future goals, I have my own unique culture.

“Don’t let the Arab play dodgeball with us. He might try killing us.” As I looked around exasperatedly for the origin of this voice, I was greeted with a barrage of laughter. I did not have the cultural or linguistic qualifications to be deemed Arabic. Nor could my long, spindly arms cause harm. Yet, slowly, and in unison, each of my new sixth-grade classmates turned to stare at me. “Hey Arab, wipe that target off your forehead,” someone called out. I quickly realized my verbal assailant had mistakenly connected my tilak chandlo, a distinct Hindu forehead marking, with his own misinformed understanding of “Arab-ness.” My first lunch period ended with a bloody nose and a seat in the principal’s office. From that point forward, my future in middle school and high school appeared rather grim. The prospect of re-educating my peers seemed daunting and unmanageable.

Finding my culture identity has been a confusing process on if I have one and if I do what is it? Culture to me is the way you live your life and the reason you are living that way.The way my family and I have been doing certain things and how it has impacted us as people.

There are seven billion people in this world. Those of us who come from second generation families often find it difficult to have a sense of cultural identity because they don’t quite fit in as Americans whose families have lived in the U.S for generations. First generation families, like my siblings and I, also struggle to fit in. To illustrate, we come from a very diverse background involving Swedish, Arabic, English, and Somali culture. This upbringing has shaped my beliefs, view of the world, and morals to make me the person I am today.