There is no way I can deny the fact that culture helps shape the person who I am today. Meaning that we are definitely “creatures of our culture”. Ruth states that our culture directly affects our habits, beliefs, and impossibilities. Culture is not just defined as what race a person is, but rather the surroundings they encounter on a regular. Many people confirm that in today’s world, we live in a global economy. Living in a global economy forces society to become accustom to other races or religions norms and beliefs, which in turn helps shape how we react to those situations. How we think, act, and communicate is all influenced by our culture. For example, some intermediate family culture defines them by barely making ends meet. As a result, the kids see how their parents struggle so they end up following in their footsteps. Although certain kids can fall victim to the culture they are brought up in, others can change the culture they live by as a result of witnessing the poor culture they grew up in. Seeing kids who break the mold of their family’s culture is a great example of how to break through limits of their culture. For example, in the coming spring their will many students who are first time college graduates in their families. As a result of their accomplishment they broke through the limitation and created a new part of their own culture.
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As I said in my post, I definitely believe that we are creatures of our culture. We cannot help the culture we are born into but we can help what we do as adults to shape how we will lead our lives. We are all apart of similar and different cultures and we need to learn how to accept all cultures and respect them for whom they are. I also said in my post that culture is a lot more than "black' and 'white' there are many cultures that we dont even recognize on a daily basis-for example, everyone in this class is apart of the acedemia culture. The United States, especially the Bay Area is very diverse and we are only hurting ourselves by judging and not expanding from our original cultures.
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