Cultural Identity is part of a person's self-conception and self-perception and is involved with ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, food, and forms who you are as a person. Food, traditions, and ethnicity are factors that shape my cultural identity. Christmas dinner and annual fishing trip with my dad are the two activities that form my cultural identity and who I am.
In my family, one of our traditions are the Creta’s Christmas Dinner. The dinner symbolizes my family's ethnicity that pulls our family together containing a half German, half Italian meal. For the meal, we make Chicken Parmesan and German Spaetzel. The dinner is called the Creta Christmas Dinner because of my family's half German, half Italian ethnicity which makes up my family. Another aspect of the tradition is how the meal pulls my family together. The words cast across the dinner table and the jokes and acts like slurping up a noodle through …show more content…
Every year my dad and I plan our annual fishing trip to the Quinault River for our bonding time. Every October, my dad and I take a three hour drive all the way up to Moclips playing 80’s music all the way. With our terrible singing voices, we sing along to every song and turn the lyrics into different rhyming words laughing all the way. This portion of the trip is part of what makes this trip so fun and memorable and that aspect is part of what forms my fun, outgoing identity. Another portion of the trip that makes it so fun is the night before the trip we go to Albertsons and buy our morning bagels, smoked salmon, and cream cheese for our traditional morning breakfast. In the morning when we wake up from not being able to sleep from the amount of excitement, we prepare our bagels. This part of the trip makes it fun and it's what makes our fishing trip a continuous tradition. The Fishing trip forms the bond between my dad and I and defines my cultural identity through the
In my family, one of our traditions are the Creta’s Christmas Dinner. The dinner symbolizes my family's ethnicity that pulls our family together containing a half German, half Italian meal. For the meal, we make Chicken Parmesan and German Spaetzel. The dinner is called the Creta Christmas Dinner because of my family's half German, half Italian ethnicity which makes up my family. Another aspect of the tradition is how the meal pulls my family together. The words cast across the dinner table and the jokes and acts like slurping up a noodle through …show more content…
Every year my dad and I plan our annual fishing trip to the Quinault River for our bonding time. Every October, my dad and I take a three hour drive all the way up to Moclips playing 80’s music all the way. With our terrible singing voices, we sing along to every song and turn the lyrics into different rhyming words laughing all the way. This portion of the trip is part of what makes this trip so fun and memorable and that aspect is part of what forms my fun, outgoing identity. Another portion of the trip that makes it so fun is the night before the trip we go to Albertsons and buy our morning bagels, smoked salmon, and cream cheese for our traditional morning breakfast. In the morning when we wake up from not being able to sleep from the amount of excitement, we prepare our bagels. This part of the trip makes it fun and it's what makes our fishing trip a continuous tradition. The Fishing trip forms the bond between my dad and I and defines my cultural identity through the