Embedded Assessment 1: My Cultural Identity I remember when my great grandpa use to take I get coffee before school every morning at 6 when I was in elementary. I grew up in Carencro , Louisiana. I always lived across from my elementary school, which is Carencro Heights Elementary so my great grandpa would always walk me to school and walk me from school and they would have fried chicken cooked for me. I was the only great-grandchild so every grandchild they had at the time was old so image that for me. Im African-American. and so is the rest of my family. All my family speaks English and also French. My cultural identity is made up of food,race, and language. First of all, let me explain the food in my culture. For any family gathering, trust and believe there gonna have rice dressing and fried chicken with potato salad if you from Carencro. When I was younger, I usta eat fried chicken with sweet …show more content…
Race plays a big part of my cultural identity. Im African-American and so is my mom,grandma,grandpa,aunt,uncle,etc. Usually in my race when my mom Scarla Siner was 15 which is my age right now that 's not a good age to get pregnant,but she did and here I am now. I was the only great grandchild so everyone loved me. My race is strong because ive learned blacks have been through lots of obstacles. Blacks have been thru slavery, and after slavery still being treated like we don 't belong here. Im happy things have changed since then because id hate for it to still be that way because I have a lot of white friends that adore my black self. I’ve danced with my white friends since I was seven years old ,been going to dance competitions together, eating out, and sleeping over. Most of my race say they don 't like white people because they feel they better than us, but right now the fastest person in the world is black so I feel it shouldn 't matter we all equal. As you can see that is my
In reading Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria, by Beverly Tatum, I have found myself identifying with the six steps which Helm’s believes to model the development of white racial identity, and realize I have yet to complete these steps. While I have not experienced exactly what Tatum says is included in each step, my experiences do closely mirror the steps which I have gone through. Most of my childhood can be described as white. I grew up in a small white town, went to a small white school, and have a small white family; for a while, I even lived in a small white house.
• My parents, brothers, sister , including my extended family belong to the same race and ethnic group. Where did your parents grow up? What exposure did they have to racial groups other than their own? (Have you ever talked with them about this?) •
If you go more than three generations up in your ancestral line, you no longer share any blood similarities with your. This is due to the dna mixing and different family genes, so it makes sense that our ancestors are very different then us. Me being a caucasian female living Hawaii changed my life a lot more then it would have if I stayed in Canada. I never really thought I had a culture, my family says I'm a mixed plate. That always confused me because my skin is white and I grew up in Hawaii, so I just assumed I was just another hole.
I talk about my race and culture being independent of each other. My race is Chinese, but I associate myself
I began taking steps to establish my own identity, interacting with a variety of different people, Christian teachers, Jewish friends, my Black mother, White father, and classmates that span multitudes of sexualities and ethnicities. As my life became more varied I came to see that the ties to both sides of my family
The person I interviewed was a veteran of Army that consequently he stayed some sequels that Iraq war, and one of the problems that affected him was seeing comrades die at war and innocent children died in that war as absurd. This situation affects his nervous system and had to retreat to recover from that sociological trauma. He is original from Puerto Rico; he has a wonderful family and three kids. Also something that characterizes him is Christian and Hispanic. When I make the questions, he mentioned that many years ago did not keep many traditions and customs that he grew, the reason was because he living 25 years in the U.S. He names is Luis Alberto Agosto and then he said I’m originally from Puerto Rico, but I am growth in New Jersey.
They often follow or believe in what their great grandparents believed. The identity of person comes from the people pasts, which shapes their unique
My understanding of my ethnic culture is African American once was an oppressed group of people in the United States of America. African Americans were enslaved by Caucasian Americans and was treated as property. During the times of oppression, African American was not prohibited to read or write, to maintain stable family relationship and to have human rights. This traditions of the African American culture are emplace so the generations of African American can experience the rights other African Americans were
I am an international student from Vietnam who came to the United States to pursue higher education. I was brought up in a very unique culture and family traditions, and this has had a strong influence on my beliefs and mindsets. Together with all the experiences that I have been through so far in my life, I have formed some social and personal identities that I might or might be aware of. Such identifies are an important tool that can stay with me and remind me every day of who I am and my origin.
My cultural identity can be identified by my age, the food I eat, and the music I listen to. My favorite foods define who I am because, Louisiana has very different types food. Crawfish, Gumbo, Alligator, and Boudin are examples of some of the foods i like. A lot of people, like me, put Tony Chachere’s on their food. Just something as simple as liking spicy foods can make your culture different.
On my mother’s side is a mix of Pontian Greek and German. My maternal papou’s (grandfather) line traces back to the 1730s America. This part of the family is almost completely ignored in favor of my maternal yiayia’s (grandmother) heritage . My mother’s family only follows Greeks tradition though.
Throughout my experiences in this course so far, I have had many opportunities to reflect on my own past and have begun to better understand my own cultural identity. It has been much more difficult to wrap my head around than I would have predicted it to be because so many things play into the construction of an identity that it can be hard to look at all of those separate pieces together. My cultural identity, like all others, is more complicated than it first appears. I identify as a white person, a woman, an American, a gay person, and a feminist, just to name a few. While all of these labels carry with them stereotypes and expectations, they also interplay with the cultural influences I was subject to throughout my childhood.
Gage Domingue Ms. David English 2 10/1/15 Cultural Identity Being an African American born in Louisiana who loves spicy food and even spicier women, i 'm greatly influenced by my culture. My cultural identity comes from the food I eat, the race I am, and the state that I live in. If not for these three things, I wouldn 't be myself. First of all, the food as I said before is spicy.
Many women own wages particularly in households where men are absent. Grandmothers often take care of the young children. The main meal is almost always in the evening because most people have not time to prepare a midday meal. Sundays tradition dictates that even poor families enjoy a large and sociable brunch/lunch. THey will normally eat things like chicken, yams, fried plantains, rice, and peas.
When I was growing up, trying to explain to people why I look different from my Filipino family, why I had two sets of parents, and why my brothers live in America, and I live in the Philippines—was a “serious struggle.” I tended to spend half a day, talking about my entire biography (haha). I now have my own non-traditional, multiracial, and blended family. My husband is Black, I am Black and Filipino. We have