Analyzing Barbara Ehrenreich's 'Cultural Baggage'

Cultural Baggage The article “Cultural Baggage” by Barbara Ehrenreich’s was difficult to understand. But, in the beginning it talks about a friend asking the writer what her ethnic background was and Ehrenreich says “none”. This puts her to think since the friend mentions that she knows everything about her ancestors. Then she goes on saying that she was Scottish,English and Irish. She begins to feel some guilt for saying none and for not knowing much about her background which even makes her but later on in the article she begins to remember how her mother never said things such as “ your grandmother did it this way” and thing of that sort. At the end of the article she shares that she asked her children who where mostly grown “if they felt any stirrings of ethnic or religious identity which might have been, ahem, insufficiently nourished at home”. The children’s response was that they felt none, she felt relieved and proud and she knew her mother would feel the
But, in the beginning it talks about a friend asking the writer what her ethnic background was and Ehrenreich says “none”. This puts her to think since the friend mentions that she knows everything about her ancestors. Then she goes on saying that she was Scottish,English and Irish. She begins to feel some guilt for saying none and for not knowing much about her background which even makes her but later on in the article she begins to remember how her mother never said things such as “ your grandmother did it this way” and thing of that sort. At the end of the article she shares that she asked her children who where mostly grown “if they felt any stirrings of ethnic or religious identity which might have been, ahem, insufficiently nourished at home”. The children’s response was that they felt none, she felt relieved and proud and she knew her mother would feel the same way knowing that the race “none”