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Embedded Assessment: Cultural Identity

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Dalandra Goodwin 11/3/17 Embedded Assessment 1:1 What is cultural identity? Cultural Identity is the way of life you live everyday. They way you dress, the food you eat, religion, ethnicity, language, clothing, etc. My cultural Identity is the music I listen to, the food I eat, and how we dress. The music I listen to expresses where my family is from and I have lived with it my entire life. I grew up around Jazz music/cajun music also known as zydeco. It expresses my cultural identity because it tells the background of where I have grown up. The culture’s ideas or view is almost always represented by the lyrics and style of music. Another thing that expresses my cultural is the food that I eat. Food and culture are tied together in so
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