Culture

Culture is what influences each person to be the person he or she is today. I have been raised under a Filipino-American culture. As a Filipino, I was surrounded by a collective group of people. I learned to care for the group and to watch out for my family, especially my younger sister. I learned to respect the elderly because they are valued within my culture. My culture is extremely important to me because I appreciate what my parents and grandparents have taught me. I have been familiar with the culture since I was born, therefore I follow it. As a being the first generation as a Filipino-American, I find it a little worrisome that all the values and beliefs taken from my Filipino relatives will not be instilled the same way to my children as they were to me. Since my grandmother, mother, aunts, and uncles came to America from the Philippines, I am exposed to a lot of the strong culture from the country. I understand the dialects they speak, and appreciate the food they make. Those are some aspects of my Filipino culture I won't be able to expose my children to alone. Hopefully, I do a good job with that when the time comes. As an American, I am proud to be surrounded by such different cultures. It is interesting to see how well people can get coming from different places around the world.