Final Project: Cultural Me

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by Shyla Rutkowski1 view·Updated Jun 23, 2021
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  1. Hello, this is my personal knowing signature assignment.
  2. So my name is Charles Bukowski and this is the
  3. picture of me when I graduated from Stockton.
  4. You. Yeah, so a little bit of my background is
  5. I am 1/4 generation american and I'll explain that shortly
  6. I was born in fort Stewart Georgia at the Wind
  7. Army Hospital on March 21st and I have lived in
  8. four different states.
  9. However, I only truly remember living in two of them,
  10. but I have visited the other states that I did
  11. live in.
  12. English is the only spoken language within my family.
  13. Some heritage is that my last name tells me I
  14. am polish.
  15. Rutkowski is very polish.
  16. However, from my mom said, I also found out that
  17. I'm irish and a little bit of german and also
  18. some Czechoslovakian in there.
  19. However, due to these being my heritage that doesn't portray
  20. my culture, I don't truly follow any of these traditional
  21. things from being polish or irish anything like that.
  22. So I say that I am american.
  23. My culture is that I am an american.
  24. So some of my identities that portray who I am
  25. are a woman, a sister, daughter teacher, I'm also a
  26. Texan in New Jersey and and these identities help me
  27. show my culture as an american.
  28. Specifically some traditions that we follow are the traditional american
  29. holidays. So we have christmas easter, which is hard to
  30. present my favorite even though I'm not very religious easter,
  31. still my favorite, mainly because of the colors and I
  32. like to think of it as like a mini christmas.
  33. We also celebrate the fourth of july Halloween, new york
  34. thanksgiving and even Memorial Day, Labor Day, all those big
  35. ST Patrick's Day, all those truly american holidays, me and
  36. my family celebrates.
  37. So as you can see, I definitely have a bunch
  38. of pictures that portray each of these holidays.
  39. However, depending on my identity as a Texan or a
  40. new jersey and kind of depicts on where my tradition
  41. goals and where we celebrate these holidays.
  42. So for example, as a new Jersey and it is
  43. custom to go to the beach.
  44. 100%. The beach is an hour away, Not even so
  45. for New Years, not for the fourth of july, Memorial
  46. Day, Labor Day, anything in that nature.
  47. It's the beach, specifically.
  48. Fourth of july is the big one.
  49. We always go down and ran a short house or
  50. A hotel room for the weekend and we dress up
  51. 4th of July colours all over and we just spend
  52. the day at the beach we go and the boardwalk
  53. on at night to see the fireworks.
  54. However, as a Texan, that's not really a plus, like
  55. that's not really a thick.
  56. The beach specifically from where I lived was about four
  57. hours away.
  58. So it was very difficult to go to the beach
  59. to celebrate.
  60. But we still did the fireworks the fourth of july
  61. colours and made sure that we were proud of where
  62. we were for christmas specifically.
  63. We always cut down our own tree.
  64. It was a big thing to go and find the
  65. perfect tree and cut it down and be able to
  66. decorate it.
  67. But for texas is not really that popular to do
  68. that specifically.
  69. Because of where, where would you get one?
  70. Yes, they do have them.
  71. Yes they do that.
  72. My friends have done that but it wasn't as big
  73. of a deal as it is here.
  74. Yeah. So just some of the favorite foods that I
  75. have from the american culture is a mixture of all
  76. of our cultures.
  77. American America is seen as the melting pot of the
  78. United States, specifically because of everybody coming in settling here.
  79. So we were able to incorporate multiple cultural food.
  80. So we have pizza nachos, spaghetti seafood, but the true
  81. american hamburger, I got, I love some cheese very specifically
  82. on the fourth of july, but I also love being
  83. able to eat foods from other cultures and trying different
  84. things. My favorite thing to try and kind of love
  85. to eat now is spaghetti tacos, kind of a mixture
  86. of like a mexican and italian thing.
  87. And I also like to add some seafood on there
  88. sometimes just to give a little extra kick.
  89. So my clothing that I like to say is my
  90. american cultural holding is comfy.
  91. I love to wear jeans and a T shirt, it
  92. could be 90 degrees outside and I'm still wearing jeans,
  93. they might be jean shorts, but they're so jeans and
  94. I love to wear hoodie.
  95. Hoodies are my favorite.
  96. I also like to wear some workout clothes.
  97. They are very comfy, their company to me.
  98. And as you can see these three different pictures, I
  99. have a hoodie on hoodies are my absolute favorite.
  100. So the wedding is a big known cultural thing inside
  101. the american tradition and it's every girl's little, every little
  102. girl's dream, you dream of that white dress, your dad
  103. walking you down the aisle, you dream of how you're
  104. boyfriend is going to propose to you.
  105. And for me that's depicted in these pictures, I haven't
  106. had that dream come true yet, but I still try
  107. to kind of planet even though it's not happening yet.
  108. However, in the american tradition, a white dress is kind
  109. of this statement white.
  110. But even though that's the statement for american culture, it's
  111. not the requirement as seeing as american, we get to
  112. do whatever we pretty much whatever we want for our
  113. big day, we can have it where we want, we
  114. don't have this, we do that.
  115. So for me it's the beach.
  116. The beach would be my ideal.
  117. Little little girls dream.
  118. Yeah and here are just some fun activities and entertainment
  119. that I done in the american tradition.
  120. We like to play drinking games.
  121. My family drinks a lot, but we also love to
  122. go to the boardwalk and the beach.
  123. Even when it's not a big holiday, we try to
  124. do it as much as possible.
  125. We do participate in like T ball, getting our daughter
  126. in a bunch of different activities in my household, football
  127. is a big big deal.
  128. However, as you can see my daughter has got cowboys
  129. and eagles on, so as my identity as a Texan,
  130. I have my daughter in cowboys, but as my identity
  131. as a New Jersey and specifically from her dad, she's
  132. in her eagles.
  133. But we both love the flyers, you can see it
  134. for the top.
  135. She does have her flyers gear and we do participate
  136. that way.
  137. These are just some fun little things that we get
  138. to do, and that's my personal, knowing that's just a
  139. little bit about my american culture and how I depict
  140. myself.