Personal Narrative: How My Culture Changed My Life

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For the majority of my life, I believed I was from America. No other country and no other family than the one here. I was wrong. And I couldn’t have been happier. Me having a small percentage of leading back to Ghana honestly changed the way I view my people here and how people in the future should continue to find their true selves.
Learning about my culture and where I come from made me content with myself. Researching my past and who my ancestors were helped me with the things I was dealing with as a middle schooler. I did a project on the country of Ghana and their culture there. I learned many things, as well as how different they are from America. Long story short, I accepted that I have Ghanaian and even began furthering my research

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