personal culture essay

Experiencing a new culture is usually life changing. I first started going to Tijuana, Mexico three years ago because my dad was deported. The only places I had ever been to were here in California. When going to a new place I never thought there would be a drastic change in the environment, or people. It’s amazing how a border can separate two worlds and make them so different. In Tijuana, Mexico I saw how they live and interact differently. As soon as someone crosses the border they are rapidly

The Navajo puppetry culture is a most celebrated tradition into womanhood. The transition from child to adult is marked by maturity among all girls who come of age. It was a religious rite of passage that would stay with me mentally and physically. On the first morning to follow, the sun was yet to come out, I was dressed in my finest traditional clothes. Than I lay on the floor and was stretched by a female relative, other than a male or my father, but by my mom. It was a symbol of remolding myself

I have seen some people, of a single culture, who believe they are superior to others because of the way they look. I have never believed that there is one culture that exceeds another. I do however; see people who have different personalities that make them unique not because of their ethnicity. I have a tan skin color and I don’t like the fact that

surface and deep culture unique to me. I found out where I got my passions and which people influenced my culture, and what I need to do to continue to keep my culture and faith to be something I’m proud of. The way i live my life, is influenced heavily by my surface culture. To represent my surface culture on a physical object, I took a step back and thought how do others see me. A huge part of this comes from the effect other people have on my life. In my surface culture representation there

encyclopedia, and an atlas. I would constantly learn about and imagine new experiences, cultures, and places vastly different and similar to what I had known in Canada and my parents’ stories of living in Argentina and Peru. To this day, I can say that much of my interest in Japan comes from my love and academic studies on geography and urban society. I am interested in learning, building, and supporting Japanese culture through English instruction and cultural exchange at the local community level. I

Today's culture revolves around, promotes, and even worships selfishness. This value has become the core value of the individual, the family, the church and society as a whole. In the midst of our egregious culture, Romans 12:1-2 calls us to go against everything and live life as a living sacrifice. I have spent much time recently grappling with this concept of what it means to be a living sacrifice. At first, this phrase conjured images of rejecting the world's solipsistic nature and achieving

My Personal Culture (question) What to choose? Everyday, we have the choice to choose who we want to be. Daily, we have the option of reflecting upon yesterday and growing from our mistakes, to change our future. We are all sculpted by our virtues and personal culture. Discovering our personal culture is like growing and breathing. We all do it but many don’t take the time to think about and appreciate it. As Ralph Waldo Emerson, the famous Transcendentalist writer once said, “What is a weed? A plant

I wanted my montage to portray the struggle I have with accumulating to American society but instead of it showing things that I feel make up the American or Cameroonian culture, I chose to pick the major things that I have taken from both Cultures. These things shape who I am and the way I perceive things. The background I wanted to represent my mind and what goes on when I think. The electrical sparks represent electrodes that control the thought process. In the top middle I have praying hands

various cultures and ethnicities ,while it has made me more understanding of other cultures and their beliefs , it has given me the false assumption that the rest of the country is as understanding as we are. I myself have been racially profiled at the airport , for my indian like appearance; however when they learned that i did not possess an accent they quickly excused my father and I. Although we were not offended by the experience , it questions how much people know about the cultures that they

The five popular cultures that I partake in are; dancing, playing the violin, celebrating Father’s Day, ice skating, and celebrating Mother’s Day. coming from ancient Egypt as rituals for their gods and goddesses, dancing could be performed by making movements with one’s body. During the 1530’s in Cremona, Italy, Andrea Amati made the first violin. The violin made by piecing together an ivory or ebony fingerboard, a wooden bridge, two spruce sound posts, and a wooden frame with catgut (the dried