Describe Your Ethnic Background

My culture begins where I was raised. My ethnic background is African American, English I was born in Oakland, California. Culture is about family, knowledge, language, music, religion, food and music. It is a belief system that can have a major impact on your life. My culture is informed by religion and spiritual beliefs. I’ve been taught that you must respect your elders. I had to practice rituals as well as celebrate special holidays and attend certain events throughout the year.
I come from a single family home I was raised by my mother, I have two sisters and one brother who was raised in the home with me. My mother raised me with a religious background with many different beliefs which is what made me who I am today. I was raised with a strong Christian background which has had a great impact on my life today. These beliefs are shared with other cultures all around the world. I believe that my intelligence and knowledge come
I was blessed to attend school with other races, Chinese, Indians, Mexicans and Europeans, which taught me how to interact with other cultures. When you learn to communicate and speak another language that opens up a dialogue for you to gain access to other knowledge that can help you progress in life. Culture is important because it allows you to have a support system and transmit and share values. Social functioning is also important because once you leave home you have to be able to adapt in the real world. Interacting with new people allows you to make new friends in school, work and learn new ideas outside your culture. Having other friends from other cultures has allowed me the opportunity to introduce my friends to American food I’ve learned how to cook Indian dishes from my Indian friend's mother. “If you want to learn a culture, you have to learn how to like what it likes, rather than go looking for something that you like.”(John