Personal Narrative: Cultural Identity
Cultural identity? I’ve always believed that cultural identity is what your ethnicity or race is. But no, apparently, it’s much more complex. Cultural identity is something that defines who you are, what you believe, how you behave, what you eat, what you wear, etc. Hm… Seems very complicated. Everyone else seem to define themselves very easily. Me, I seem to only scratch the surface of who I am.
To start off, I can say that my culture is somewhat stereotypical. Im full Filipino (for all I know. My Dad keeps on telling me that I might be part mexican but really I’m not) and some of the stereotypes can say some stuff about me. Usually, when I tell them that I’m filipino, the questions would eventually come to say “Do you eat dog?” Ugh. I hated
To start off, I can say that my culture is somewhat stereotypical. Im full Filipino (for all I know. My Dad keeps on telling me that I might be part mexican but really I’m not) and some of the stereotypes can say some stuff about me. Usually, when I tell them that I’m filipino, the questions would eventually come to say “Do you eat dog?” Ugh. I hated