What Is Your Cultural Identity

Cultural Identity Do you celebrate any holidays almost the same way each year? In my case, I celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas day the same way once a year. It is a time that I get to see and spend time with many members of my family that I do not usually get to see any other time of the year. I really enjoy Christmas Eve and Christmas day for this reason. It is my favorite time of the year and to top it off, in my opinion, waking up to snow covering the ground on Christmas is the best thing in the world. Firstly, on Christmas Eve, I get ready to go out to eat with my extended family and relatives. We almost always go to a fancy Italian restaurant that has a nice atmosphere and has good food. We go to restaurants that are sometimes in town, but sometimes they are a bit of a drive away. For example, this year we went to an upscale one somewhere approximately 30 minutes from Hawthorne. When I walked into the restaurant, I noticed …show more content…
It is when I get to see relatives that I would not get to see otherwise. It is an event where I get to catch up with these people and update them on my life and hear things they have done in the past year. My personal favorite part about this holiday is talking and getting advice from my older cousins about anything that is on my mind. I hope when my younger relatives grow up, they can rely on me for advice and information on topics just as I do with my older cousins. I think it is interesting seeing how my family tree advances and how it updates each year with changes such as births and people growing up. I hate when funerals and death gets brought up at family events because it makes me very sad and wishes the person could be with us to celebrate and enjoy Christmas traditions. Christmas is very essential to me personally and without it, I don’t think there would be another time I would be able to see all the people that I want to