La Cultura

What is culture? Culture is what makes me, me. Not only is it the music I listen to, or the clothes I wear but also everything that I was taught, how I was brought up, the people I met along the way, and what my children will learn from me. The unique thing about culture is you can pick and choose as to what you want to define who you are.

I couldn’t agree more with Clifford Geertz beliefs on culture being more of a “search of meaning”, an interpretation.

Culture is not an individual alone, but the society or group of people that molded that individual.

Coming from a Mexican American family, I have culture oozing through my bones. As I grew older I could see that my parents were raised completely different of each other. Yet, they managed to take bits and pieces from how they were brought up as they molded their lives as one in raising a family of their own. I may not carry every bit of it with me, and I may change some, and create some of my own… that’s where I feel it is how I interpret my culture.

However, this is just the view through my eyes.