which parts of your cultural identify do you identify with the least? why?
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'Cultural': relating to the habits, traditions and beliefs of a society.\n\n'Identity': who a person is, or the qualities of a person or group which make them different from others.\n\nNow, culture provides:\n1. a particular view or understanding of the world. \n2. rules and patterns of behaviours.\n\nThe mexican culture is a clash of two different cultures that fusioned.  \n\nIn mexico there is a high regard for parties and celebrations... we even celebrate the day of the deads... and I don't feel identified with this traditions and behaviours because I don't agree with making a big celebration of 'nothing'... Low-income people spend all their savings in weedings and parties that they give to their relatives or extended family and even neighbours just because it gives them status... how silly!  I do not identify with that but I understand it.  Also mexicans are always 'worried' about the future and they daydream about winning the lottery... or that things will come from heaven... they never take their present and plan from it... they built up on water, as it were, and I'm not like that.  Also mexicans are too religious but they are religious because 'yes'... Do you believe in GOD? 'yes' Why? 'I don't know but I believe'... hmmm I'm not like that... Also mexicans say that it is better to do something even if it is not well done but it is done... and I think that if you are to do something (anything) you have to do it in the best possible way.  Also mexicans have a saying 'There's more time than life'... and they don't care if they arrive on time or not... as they see the future events as a 'question mark'... because of what I already said, they do not see unpunctuality as an offense and I do.\n\nI hope that answers what you're looking for.
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Where are you from?\nWhat is your native tongue speak?\nare there any sub-languages in your native language?\nWhat is your staple diet?\nhow would you describe you native society?(matriarchal/patriarchal)\nDid you culture ever have caste system or class system?\nWhat is it that distinguishes your cultuer from others?\nDoes your culture have songs/lullabys/stories?\nDoes your culture have superstitions?\nOr legends Or urban legends?\nDo you think/feel todays modernisation is changing your culture(corrupting original thought process)?\nWhat do you predict for the future?how will it be different as compared to as it is today?
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I noticed that you did'nt mention a specific tribe.\nDifferent tribes have different dances.\nDifferent tribes have different beliefs.\n\nYou got to be more specific.\n\nAs to the person that answered previously:\nAnybody with common sense would know this.
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I don't know why.  You have a good point. I usually state that I am a New Yorker.  If I answer a question and they ask if I am an American I will answer yes but I always state that I am a New Yorker.  My g/f is from Holland.  My family has a tendency to state shes European.  No she's Dutch first. Europe is a big place.  Just as America is.  Need to be more specific in my opinion. People have been known to generalize.  And I for one dont like to be generalized so I help clarify where I am from.
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do you feel there's something wrong with you? i don't.  what's a typical african american taste? you've just added to what you've been exposed to, but you've fallen in to that culture box society tries to identify everyone by, by believing or thinking that something is amiss with your tastes.  peoples tastes are as individual as they are and its wrong to pigeonhole someone because of their culture. be yourself...love yourself whatever your tastes.
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eastern indian\nor\namerican indian\nim half american,but related to the sioux tribe eastern tribe monican.\nnot looking though really
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While heritage is important it does not define you.  I have the same problem.  I'm half Hispanic and 5' 10" (unusual) and all the dark features of being Hispanic.  My Hispanic father died before I was born so I raised by Caucasian mother and Caucasian stepfather.  When I vacation in Mexico or go to ethic markets they shake their heads in disappointment because I don't know the language.  It used to really upset me.  Until I realized that I can respect my heritage but it does not define me.  \n\nI hope this helps.
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u cant categorize people into one thing.  every single person is different and we all have our own preferences.  some do some dont
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>>>>Not to be racist, but it's as if only white people are >>>>allowed to have an identity.\n\nThat's simply not true. \n\nHow many people do you know of who could explain the cultural differences between a Libyan and a Turk? To most Americans they are simply Arabs, white or not. Similarly how many people do you know of who could distinguish between a Boer and a white Kenyan based purely on cultural difference? Both are simply Africans. How many people do you think understand the difference between a Georgian and a Muscovite? How about a Berber and a Taureg? A Kurd and a Sikh? A Lapp and an Norwegian?\n\nYet those are all white people. Quite clearly this cultural ignorance has nothing whatsoever to with skin colur or race.\n\n\n>>>>>Nobody confuses an Irishman with an Italian just \n>>>>>because they are "European".\n\nThat is because America has huge numbers of Italian and Irish immigrants. Try the average American on groups from European areas that haven't emigrated to the US in large numbers. How many people wouldn't confuse a Dane and Norwegian as both being Scandinavian? Or a Frenchman and a Belgian? Or a Spaniard and a Portugese?\n\nFor perhaps the perfect example, even after 20 years of being a major public figure my experience tells me that well over 25% of Americans still don't understand that Arnold Schwarzenegger is not and never has been German. \n\nThe simple fact is that there are far to many cultures and ethnicities in the world to have even a cursory knowledge of them all, even those of us that are interested. We need to lump cultures somehow to get any sort of handle on what is out there. Sometimes that lumping is ridiculously broad, as with your examples of "Africans" and "Asians" but we still need to do that. And African is no more ludicrous as a grouping than “Russian”, and Russians are largely white.\n\nAs we become more and more interested in regions and people we narrow down those divsions. So most Americans can separate out Sicilians and Italians generally. Many now can also separate out Hmong and Vietnamese generally, which is a very fine scale split. \n\nBut the parts of the world we have no reasons to be interested in tend be populated in our minds by "Africans" and "Russians", even though those groupings are more or less meaningless.\n\nBut rest assured it has nothing to do with race. Americans are just as almost as ignorant or European cultural differences as Africans.\n\nBut just to make you fell a bit better, my experience has been that most Africans don't draw any real distinction between Americans and Canadians either. The USA and Canada are usually treated the same way Americans treat Austria and Germany. Everyone more or less knows they're separate countries, but the differences in language, culture and so forth are so small that they feel they can be ignored.\n\nLike I said, nothing to do with race.
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Almost everything. Gender is a huge determinant; no surprise that for most cultures that's the primary means of assigning what people are to wear. The culture itself tells a person a lot. What that person might actually like. Peer pressure from family, friends, and society at large. Trends and lifestyles, and the desire to be accepted by others. Fears and hopes. The work or job one does. One's religion and faith. \n\nSo many pressures for such a simple thing. But most cultures really do believe that "the clothes make the man (or woman)" and don't tolerate deviance in such an important matter.
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Nationality means what country you come from.  Culture means the way you live and act.
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My Totems are the Bull, Horse, Wild Cat (I can't tell if it's a Cougar or Jaguar!), and the Wolf.  \n\nI do not consider myself either Wiccan or Pagan - I am merely spiritual.  (I was raised 1/2 Catholic and 1/2 Jewish, while I should have twice the guilt, I don't - I follow NO RELIGION).  \n\nHowever, being what I consider to be a "true" American, meaning that my heritage is vastly diverse; (My ethnicity covers 5 of the 7 continents: from most of Europe, to North Africa & the Middle East, to Asia, to both North AND South Native Americans - no Aborigine or Penguins yet - but I'm working on the latter - LOL!)\n\nPS: You should see our family gatherings!
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Culture and ethnicity mean everything to me...I am proud that this land I walk on was tread by my ancestors hundreds of years ago, I am proud that my people were warriors, many of our cultural life has been integrated into NZ life.  Conservation, family values, oratory, hygiene etc..we are unique and knowing gives us our identity of belonging.  I am maori our people are not perfect but they do not deserve the tongue lashing they are subject too.  NZers often want us to step out and do song and a dance but they do not want to honour our culture.  Most cannot tell me what the treaty (now 166 years old) consists off but will tell us that our rights should be abolished.  Maori is the language with different dialects for different regions, we have a very different lifestyle from New Zealanders but slip easily in and out of both..
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i'm samoan.  full.....but my daughter is afakasi.  i don't really think of it as a derogatory term.  and i don't think most samoans do either. its just a word to describe what ethnicity u are.  saying your afakasi just tells people u have more than 1 ethnicity.  at least thats the way i look at it.  but i can also understand how that could be hurtful also.  u can either look at it as a positive or a negative.  for me i'd wanna feel proud of all my nationalities.
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Look, We all have features about ourselfs that we don't like, and some that we do like.  We just have to accept who we are.  I am half Japanes, and sometimes I hate being Japanese because of people who are against Japan.  But then I think, screw them!  Who cares what they think!  I am proud of my heritage because I am the only Japanese kid at my school.  And in a way, I feel unique.  You can't change the way you look, you can only change the way you think about yourself! =)
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Take it a step further: why are there some white people that can be proud of their heritage (Irish, Scots, Italians), but other white people who can't (English, American)
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That's very, very vague.  Cultural influences among with nations or aspects of those nations?