When faced with the idea of culture we often think of the normal race sex ethnicity and gender. Very often we find ourselves building a self image of who we are through these characterizations. For me the main way I would describe myself would be through my ethnicity. Ethnicity has nothing to do with the color of my skin but the environment I grew up in. When looking at my ethnicity there are two major ways I define myself and there are as a military brat and as a baptist. Both of these descriptions bring with it certain values and Ideals that are associated with the particular description.
Lets take being a military brat for instance. To someone who has never been in the military or part of a military family the term may not seem to be very enlightening but to other military brats a military members it is all encompassing. There is a certain bond that is shared between military families that other people can never understand. Being a member of a military family changes your entire life in so many ways your interactions with people who are not military families change. Though I am no longer in the military there are certain aspects on life and views of the world that stand out from those around me. For example my experiences with moving not only around the United States but also all over the world. I have a very different view on life and the reality of the world than people who for the most part grow up and live in the same town they were born in all their life.
The second way I describe my self through my ethnicity is through being a baptist. Being a baptist sets u apart from most other religions because we believe very differently than most about salvation and different things the Bible says. Some things that are said about the baptist is that we know how to preach the gospel and we like to eat. Both of which are true in my case.
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