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Personal Narrative: How Hawaii Changed My Life

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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 couldn't me more wrong, in this paper I will talk about how my different ancestral background made me into the person I am now.
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Living in hawaii effected my culture in many ways. I was effected in the activities I do, the mannerisms in my speech, and the types of food I eat. For example in hawaii we eat a lot more rice and fish but back in canada we a lot more farm fresh foods, like potatos spinach. If not for Hawaii I wouldn't have found my main sport water polo and my whole life revolves around it. Lastly my mannerisms in my speech has changed because I was exposed to pigen. So now I occasionally use it. Living in the USA also changed me, in the states we eat different foods and have different holidays than Canada. In canada we have different types of chips such as ketchup, all dressed, and dill pickle. Also the sweets are different in Canada we have arrows bars, coffee crisps, sour soothers, and sour coke bottles. All in all I am proud to be from these places and I am proud to have some of these traits because it makes me who I am.
I am proud to be where I am from and where I live, I wouldn't be the person I am today if not for my them. The people that have raised me helped shaped part of my
Culture. The most important thing to remember is that no matter where you your from, where you live, or what you like it’s the things you you do and who you are thats matters. People all around the world come from different backgrounds and that is what makes us so unique. It’s our culture that makes us who we are and what we

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