My Family: What Is Cultural Identity?

What is Cultural Identity? Some may say it´s your own characteristics that define who you are, what you believe in, how you see the world, and how everybody else sees others like you. Although there are still some people who judge you based on your ethnicity, Most people judge based on their character. For me, I think a lot of people see me as a quiet, smart, nice, trustworthy person and I have friends that have the same characteristics and doesn't judge me just because I'm Micronesian. For that I am truly blessed and grateful for that as well as knowing who I am on the inside and on the outside. The three major things in my life that define my Cultural Identity are Traditions, Food, and my relations with my parents. I know that many people
Men who live in the village spend much of their time tending their yams and sakau, for every Pohnpeian male is expected to have these. Pohnpeians tend to be secretive about their cultivation of these plants, so Pohnpeian homesteads are often scattered over the countryside and rather distant from one another.
Although the society is organized into lineages descended from the mother's side, children inherit their land from their father and married couples usually reside on the husband's family estate. Several married brothers will often live with their families on one large piece of land. Their father would traditionally have been the head of the family group and made all decisions affecting the group, but this is changing today.
While the social organization in the outer islands resembles Pohnpei to some extent, these atolls are without much of the formality of Pohnpei's feasting rituals and prestige economy. Based on my research this is what I could find as to what the Pohnpeian traditions are. I can connect to this because I was raised to think about other
The food, the people usually would eat back at home would be the things they had planted including: Taro, Breadfruit, Bananas, Coconuts, Mangoes, Pineapples, Wild apples, Star fruits, Papaya, Guava, and many more local fruits around. The staple foods, in the ocean are the many reef and pelagic fish, crabs, shellfish, as well as pigs, and chickens. Pigs, in Pohnpei are raised by nearly every family for ceremonial and cultural purposes, such as weddings, funerals and feast for celebration. As for my favorite dish, I would have to go with Tapioca with a Coconut milk sauce/dressing. It is absolutely delicious. It can also be a substitute for rice as well as breadfruit and sweet potatoes. So it’s healthy and beneficial if you want to go on a no eating rice diet. Whenever I eat this dish I fall madly in love with it especially if it’s still warm. It is like you’re gaining wisdom from the