Cultural identity can be like a roller coaster with all the loops and turns or it can be just like a simple circle full of one thing only.
Me ? I'm a circle. A circle full of Mexican pride. Both parents coming from Mexico. I was born in Oaxaca Mexico but my parents moved to Vegas and brought me when I was just two years old . So yes , I was raised in Vegas. Both of my parents are 100% mexican , we?ve been living in different apartments all my life but settled in a house recently the fact that we moved to a house was amazing truly it was because it was a big accomplishment for my parents but I don't go to the same school anymore and I moved to western where I rather not be but I'll get use to it.
My brother and I had our baptism, my mom was
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I am bisexual and as you may know that doesn't go with the whole christianity thing but my parents do not know. Things they do and expect me to do I'll do because they're my parents and still have the right over me but I do admit going into their own cultural identity has gave me a different perspective in life and I have soaked up some of it as well and I could say it's part of my own cultural identity as well.
You know how celebrations make up whom one is like me I am from the Mexican background but as a christian I do not celebrate all the typical Mexican celebrations. Most Mexicans participate in Halloween all my friends do but I on the other hand do not. It is said in Christianity that celebrating Halloween is celebrating the devil's birthday and I agree upon that and am not allowed to participate in Halloween. That has shaped me in my cultural identity and helped me I guess grow up sooner because I would probably still have gone trick or treating but now I don't I consider myself too old for that and am not allowed anyways.
Cultural identity is religion celebrations etc. The things that make you who you are today or well helped shaped you into who you are today. Within your lifetime things might change or not and my experience has developed me into who