My Personal Cultural Identity

”Culture is what makes you a stranger when you are away from home.” -Phillip Bock. Your way of life is the one thing that you have to yourself. It is the one thing that you or you and your family do together. Rather, it is your traditions or your customs ,it is the one thing that describes you which is your cultural identity. Culture is the traditions or customs you use in your life. Something that you do at the same time, every time or very often. Tradition is also something that comes close to your culture. A tradition becomes something you do annually , weekly or even monthly which has to do with your culture as well. My cultural identity is a unique one based on the influences of technology, food, tradition. Which is some of the things that is used within my Cultural Identity. In my cultural identity my social life is a big part of that. Technology is the biggest connection to my cultural identity. I use social media as a form of identification to describe my culture and tradition. Technology such as laptops and cell phones can be a big a part of my cultural identity. Social media is something I spend a lot of my time doing ,because that’s something most teens in my generation do
in their free time. My whole family gets on some sort of social media during their free time that’s just something we enjoy doing. We also enjoy time together with anything that involves the internet. Not only does our family enjoy getting on social media together; we also enjoy getting together and eating. Every Thanksgiving, we gather up our family and my mom does most of the cooking, but everyone usually brings a gift. We do the same thing for Christmas, but on Christmas Eve we open one present before Christmas. We sit around the fireplace and drink hot chocolate with marshmallows, while telling about our hopes for Christmas presents.We also have an annual family reunion. Every year we do the same thing, and I have grown to love these traditions because we get to be with family and be happy. I also get to catch up with family, relatives and talk about their lives, so this has become a part of my culture in some ways. Other than typical food families would eat, my family eats more complex food.
In my family I am the only child that does not consume chicken, macaroni, lasagna etc.. My family enjoys those foods because it is a part of our cultural background but I started to dislike those things. One thing my mom always cooks every 20th of each month is tacos which is my favorite food. Food is the one thing that gets my family together no matter what event , holiday or occasion. We barbecue the same things on the 4th of July every year, ribs, chicken, burgers, hot dogs, and steak. My mom also likes to try new foods and put different ingredients together to make new things for us to eat. I’m not a person who would try new things but it’s a part of me to try new things because that’s our
tradition. My cultural identity involves my everyday life with technology, the food i eat, and traditions i take part in. Although I may not be french or spanish, but I have A unique based cultural identity which is different from everyone else and that is what it makes it unique. Everyone may be different it could be color, gender , style but one thing everyone has is a cultural background that gives a informative based description of them and their likes or dislikes or even social life. Culture is like the clothes you wear everyone looks at them but never understands why you wear them until you explain.