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Where I Stand: Cultural Identity Autobiography

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Culture Identity Autobiography
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 …show more content…

Culture definitely plays a role in who I will become and my values show how different I can be from others; I hope when writing this cultural autobiography to help understand myself better. My cultural identity is a combination of my worldview and values combined with my position in the nine microcultures.
My worldview would have to be expressed as knowing that not everyone is going to be exactly like me but we should all treat each other with respect. My most important values are somewhat well reflected in my daily life, though I wish it were more. Figuring out my top values was difficult because when I thought one value was important, I would see another that was just as important and could easily be among my top five. The following values that I picked out are listed from least to most important to me: passion, achievement, caring, health(spiritual), family. Having passion or deep feelings about ideas, activities or people is what drives me to follow my dreams, I never want to be that person that has no passion for anything. As I get older I …show more content…

Race/ethnicity and gender are probably odd microcultures for me to pick to be inspiring because I am not dominant in them. Being a Hispanic female is not one of the most iconic figures, thought there are some but I feel like it is hard to be taken seriously, my family and I have come across times where being that race and gender had it hardships, especially for my mom but, it was never something she could not handle. She did not go to college and she was from job to job so she was judged harshly when I was little but her advice for me was to do good in school, not be bothered by boys or drama and not think about what people said. I have no one to thank but my mom for wanting to pursue a career. I know there will be people who give me hard times just because of my race or because I am a women and they see me as not being up for the task but being able to show up the people who are like that is what inspires me to become someone who does have a career and hope that I never come across people who think like that. Class was another microculture that inspires me because we have never had lots of money to our name but we somehow could always be fine by the end of the day. Growing up I never realized we were middle class and sometimes underclass because I remember there were times where we were living with old friends that my mom knew or in our car. It went on like that for a year or two before we could actually settle down

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