cultural identity english paper

All individuals have diverse cultures and a lot of people think culture is what ethnicity he or she is, but culture in my words would be a persons beliefs, values, traditions, or where a person came from. My family lives off of the American culture and we all value music. Everyone in my family plays an instrument and we all view music as a symbol for American freedom. My whole family uses his or her instruments to express freedom of expression while living in the free nation.
In my family learning music is an extremely important. My father plays the goblet drums and my mother plays both goblet drums and guitar, they play together a lot in the house. My grandmother plays piano and she helped me become interested in piano. My sister plays violin, piano, and sings opera too. In third grade I began playing piano, and I learned violin and guitar along the road. The importance of expression through music is passed down to every person in my family tree.
My mother likes to go to drum circles on the beach and express herself through the drums. After her drum circle session, my family will sit on the beach and listen to her and I play the guitar. All of us sway and let the music go through us, my mother says being able to play on the beach is proving our freedom and the music flowing through us demonstrates how we express ourselves. My grandmother can not bring the piano out to the beach so her and I will sit in the house with all the windows open while the breeze flows in, and we play the piano. Sometimes my family will sit on the couch beside the piano and let the piano music sooth each of them. Music is the ultimate way of expression in my family.
I believe music and freedom of speech connect. Music is sharing emotion without words, in my family’s culture we communicate without use of words, rather with emotional expression through music. Music is also viewed as a celebration of freedom in my family; this is why we go in public to play our instruments. I look