Personal Narrative: My Cultural Identity

What is my culture? Do I even have a culture? Your cultural identity is based on many things in your life and who you are. It makes you, YOU. I was born in Columbus, Ohio. My Mother was in college and was only dating my dad. I did not get to grow up in Ohio throughout my life. My Dad had left me and my mother, during this process we moved down to Decatur, Illinois. My Mom and I moved into a house with my Great Grandparents, this affected my life forever. Living in Decatur, where i was, as an only child. Was something that molded my cultural identity. It had made me someone who like indoors more and preferred to stay in the house, but this didn't really effect me till later in my life. Having a small family meant we all had a close bond, always there for eachother and i appreciate nothing more than that. Something else that didn't affect me till later was that my dad is African american, and my Mom Caucasian i am mixed, being mixed. This had major impact on me as a became about the age of 8 feeling as if i was the only odd one and felt i was “the friend” and and Caucasian friends with me would be thought of my Mom's child . On the other …show more content…
I had been a christian my whole life and about after 1 or 2 years of him in my life he forced me and my mother to basicly change religions. Even though it made me feel less insecure of my skin color in public. This was a major change in my culture, you could say i experienced major cultural shock as well. Being born and raised a christian it was rough. Without deep detail of this it negatively affected me. It made me very secluded and cause high anxiety almost 24-7. After 5 year of this traumatization, we had left. i went back to christianity, i as well found a love and passion for music As i went through that experience. I found music to be my “get away” from my troubles and even after the past i had major anger issues for about a

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