Cultural Autobiography

Annie Kelly EDU 260 Cultural Autobiography March 1, 2015 My Culture, Because I Have One It is sometimes hard for me to identify my culture and to recognize how it affects the person I am today and how I respond to the people around me.. Yukari Amos claims that it is a tendency of Whites to refer to themselves as cultureless and bestow on themselves a quality of personal detachment, objectivity, and omnipotence1 (304), but that it is as impossible to abandon one s whiteness as it is for a person of color to abandon their race.. A sports team has a lot of extremely hard workers, people who know how to balance their time, people who support each other and build up each others confidence, and people who are willing to put over twenty hours a week into something they love.. I did not understand how something as normal as being gay was being used to make fun of someone, and since then I have always been very sensitive when people are not accepting of different sexual or gender identities and am very quick to call someone out for using the word gay as an insult.. For me, this acknowledges that I was raised Catholic and that there are important messages within the tradition that I believe in, but that I pick and choose what I like and can incorporate my Quaker background into my belief system..