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Who I am as cultural being? Culturally, I identify myself as Hungarian/American Christian. I am also a first-generation American. It is essential to identify this, it relates to my sense of belonging, self-perception and ethnicity. All of witch shaped the person I am today. However, at some point in time, my cultural being has presented confusion for some people, (including myself ) as I was born in Romania into Hungarian family, raised in Transylvania in a White/Hungarian community. As a result of my upbringing as a minor in Romania/Transylvania, I have had to learn two languages, as Romanian was the official language; However, I/we were able to preserve our native language, which was dominant in our family and our community. Thus, I consider
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