I was asked question about my life, how and who raised me, what culture I was from and if I felt different because of my culture. Frankly at the time of the screening I had no idea what culture was and how it could possible affect me. I had no idea how deep the French culture lived in me and how it had created a sort of duplicity in my personality. How I could easily switch from the uptight almost snobby everything is together on the outside while the inside is crumbling personality that I was raised with to the casual anger entitled nature of Americans throughout my first several years of recovery this duplicity of my personality played heavy on my heart however I did not until recently, specifically the class understand that it was my cultural upbringing that was causing this …show more content…
I am finally after 4 plus years understanding who I am and how my past is influence my present. And how life is not about being exactly like your neighbor but about being different and finding common ground. I am no longer looking to eradicate my “frenchish” but embracing it as part of who I am and using that to help and inspire other people to be there true self in a world that trying to shape you into who you should