What Role Does My Culture Play In Literacy Development

Literacy is most commonly understood as reading and writing. This makes many people to believe that literacy development is the learning of reading and writing. Though they not wrong, they not hundred percent correct. Literacy development is everything that affects your ability to communicate with others.
My family and cultures play a big role in my literacy development. For my family I am the second oldest between my siblings. Each of us has about a five to six-year gap in age. My mother said she had it like that so each child of hers will get affection from her. So, my little brother and sister haven’t played much of a role in my literacy development as a child.
As for my culture I’m a Muslim from a strong bloodline. This bloodline created expectations from people outside my family, but not many people knows about my bloodline. As only well-educated people that studied the Islamic Studies will know us from our blood line. An interesting fact is, during the apartheid my family had to change their surnames to hind within South Africa.
The Muslims are protruded as terrorists on the media, but this has never bothered me as I never actually got anyone that assumed I was a terrorists. I only feel bad for the fact we can do much to fix our name any time soon.
My world-view is different from most people in my culture. It is not
This was the years I decided to have an interest in reptiles. This was also the first time I made friends that lasted longer than a year. This time frame was also the first time I was called “weird”. I was known as the weirdo because of one defining moment. A dead lizard fell out my pocket. This would have been fine if I sat by the boys instead I was place by the girls and when one saw that dead lizard every girl ran away out the class. In this moment of time I was not confident in anything I did and being called a weirdo made everything worst. I would only talk to my friends and no one