Personal Narrative: My American Culture

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My ancestors come from Western Europe. I usually would just identify myself as white. In the white culture wearing leggings, drinking starbucks and wearing Uggs is a norm. Yet, I grew up differently in Kansas City. I would now Identify myself has multicultural. There are many different cultures I am tied to here at Wyandotte High School. I am truly an American. My faith is also part of my culture, which is Catholic.
I would Identify myself as as multicultural because I come from a different background and have grown up to become apart of the Catholic culture and in the athletic culture, the school culture and my adoptive families culture. I would also say I am this culture because of all the different foods I digest; Italian, Mexican, Indian
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Other than that we do the same thing pretty much. I also don’t eat the same food as her. There are some stuff I can’t stand. Some cultures they are just one part, But I am multicultural so I am unique from them. What I want to know
I would most likely want to learn about the Baganda culture from Uganda, Africa. I don’t know much about their culture; just that they are a part of Uganda. I already know that their food involves sweet bananas and plantains. It would be fun to learn about how they dance, what kind of music they listen to and how they go about their day. I also want to learn how the children are taken care of while in school or their mother's care. I also want to know what is their religion? Do they go to church? How do they get through the day? And there are more questions I would like to have answered by the end of the research.
Religion
In the article in Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life, 2009 on the Baganda, I have learned that the bagandians religion is christian evenly divided by catholicism and protestant. About 15 percent of them are muslim though. Bagandians are considered extremely religious whatever their faith is. The baganda also believed in witches, which they also thought they were the cause to illnesses and

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