My Family Cuture

My Family Culture

Three items I choose to take with me to a host country which is completely different from my own culture would be; a photo album, a family cook book, and cell phone. I would love to enjoy looking at my photo album of my family and the places we had once visited and the different events we had experienced in our country. The family cook book would help me to share my some culture with others, as I show them how to cook different things my family enjoyed as we gather at the dinner table, and for special events. My cell phone would be more covenant because although I will not have service, if once I enter the other country and was told I could only have one personal item it would be my cell phone. My cell phone could hold a large amount of data like; pictures, receipts, books (Bible), and could be maintain within a small container.

My insight of this exercise would be the thought of me not being able to touch things which have help me to be me are heart felt, sad, and I don’t want to lose or have to pick a few items because there is so much more to my culture as an individuals. These things also surface culture, my roots and who I am, are not just in items, it me. Just as I am, how I talk, treat people, how I walk, and gestures. This exercise has made me think a little deeper about my culture, and my whole family culture, and how I can share my culture with others. I prefer to maintain the family culture because it so much diversity in the world, and it would be nice to understand, and enjoy other cultures. In this article, the term “social identity” refers specifically to those aspects of a person that are defined in terms of his or her group   memberships Ramsey, P. G. (2004).

References

Ramsey, P. G. (2004). Teaching and learning in a diverse world (pp. 3–6). New York, NY: Teachers College Press