For example: “My skin is white, but my family is from Germany and my family moved to Pennsylvania Dutch country. I found out in college that I ate pot pies that looked nothing liked the baked ones my friends bought from the store. We call ours the real pot pie.”
Every year we bake a ham in a very small pan. I have started to bake the ham for my family at thanksgiving and asked my mother and grandmother both, why is it that we use a pan that barely fits the ham. They both said “that is how we have always done it”.
Topics to cover in the paper:
Name and explore your culture (i.e family dynamic, backgrounds, growing up etc.)
Identify the process of how you discovered information about your family and culture
Discuss cultural norms for your family
What was the impact this assignment and knowledge had on your perspective
What are cultural or family norms you wish to continue?
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