Comparing My Growing Up With American Culture

Growing up with American culture is “different” from how my family members grew up with Filipino culture. I see myself as differently from my family members because of my likes and dislikes in entertainment, food, language, and styles. I feel like I lack the ethnic cultures that were passed down from my grandparent to my parents. I’m expected to have a lot of ethnic cultures from my parents. I feel different from my ethnicity because my likes and dislikes makes me seem different. I am multi-cultured. I'm 75% Filipino, and 25% Japanese. I'm mostly Filipino but whenever I ask people if I look Filipino, many people does not see any part of me that looks like most of my ethnicity. To many people, I look full Japanese. I was born with fair beige skin color that is now deeply tanned, I have slightly slanted eyes with folded and double eyelids, which is common with Asians. I also have very straight black and dark brown multi-colored hair. I find it weird how people think that I’m full Japanese, but says I look …show more content…
Whenever I go to my grandparents house I find that they have a lot of old Filipino traditions such as hand washing clothes and drying them on the laundry line, the way they bathe by filling a large bucket with water and having a smaller bucket to rinse instead of using the shower on its own. I also realize that they grow some Filipino vegetables in the back of their house and cook Filipino food all the time, and that they don’t like a lot of American food. My Dad is 50% Filipino and 25% Japanese. I feel like my dad's parents (mostly his mom) are more in touch with American cultures such as the use of electronics, styles, stores. But they still have Filipino many cultures in them such as the language, clothes, jewelry, shoes, and food. My grandparents from my dad’s side always prefers to go eat out at a restaurant, and go out shopping. And they prefer Filipino food over many American