Cultural Autobiography Examples

Although I have African American, Scottish, Native American, English and Irish ancestors, I have never particularly subjugated myself to follow any common traditions from those ethnicities. However, I do connect to the American culture and use my ethnic background for problem solving revolving around diversity. By having American culture as my backbone, I allow myself to live my life as a diverse person and also appreciate the variations of diversity around me. From my birth, I have had to identify with my race. My hometown, Rochester, Indiana, is not racially diverse. At my birth, my doctors questioned my African American mother as to whether or not I was biracial, because I looked like I was Caucasian at birth - even though my African American father was also in the room. During my first few years of life, I learned that I had to appreciate diversity, even those in my town did

By seeing different cultures, I realized that I could create my own cultural heritage, because I didn't identify with the one I was born with. So,I found tangible things that I could identify with rather than during other parts of my life where I could not, such as films and books. From there, I was able to bring up sequences in books and films and make those part of my life. For example, I use the directorial and editing choices that I have seen in movies to help with creating successful video projects in school. My friends even regard me as the “film geek” (I take that as a compliment) due to all of the movie references I use in life. In addition, I use the methods of writing that I have seen to lay a foundation for how I write, in a similar fashion as to how I use movies in my life. I also, annually attend and volunteer at the Chicago International Film Festival, and hope to broaden the film festivals that I attend in later years so that I can connect with more people who have a film based