Exploring My Cultural Identity Through Everyday Life

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Everyone has their own special cultural identity that is important to themselves. Cultural identity describes who you are as a person. A Cultural identity is “the identity or feeling of belonging to a group.” Some examples of the types of cultural identity are religion, language, and fashion. My cultural identity is seen through the food I love, the music I like, my state, gaming, and how my generation is today. Food is something we deal with everyday. Every Christmas Eve, my family gets together and they cook gumbo with potato salad. Food is important to my cultural identity because I have been eating it and it’s something I need for me to survive. During Mardi Gras season, people eat king cake and shrimp etouffee. We listen to Christmas music while we eat for Christmas Eve until it’s time to open presents. People listening to music on a daily basis. My aunts, my cousins, my siblings, and my mother all make our …show more content…

Today my generation know how to work cell phones better than older generation. Computers are also another thing my generation is talented with using today. They know how to work softwares, makes games, and fix computers. Generation is part of my cultural identity because it shows the differences between the old and past generation. We brought back the way people dressed in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Also, hairstyles were brought back like, going natural, box braids, crochet. My state, my generation, the food I like, the music I love, and gaming all identity my culture identity. The five aspects that describes what my culture identity is based on. My generation influence the new upcoming generations, people are regaining their appetite for different types of food, and music is helping people express their feelings. My state are making people come from out of state come to our festivals, and gaming helps keep a lot of teenagers out of trouble.Without out my cultural identity I wouldn’t be myself

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