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September 13, 2005
My Blog About Culture
I was reading some of the blogs that people had written about their culture and it made me realize how detached I am from what many people typically think of as one's "culture" (I mean one's ancestors, native country, etc).
I'm Irish. My mother's grandfather came to America from Ireland and was actually supposed to travel here via the Titanic, but the story goes that he couldn't afford a ticket, which is a very good thing becuase I probably would not be here had he been able to come up with the money. That little story is basically all I know about my great-grandfather and his time in Ireland.
If I could travel anywhere in the world, it would be Ireland. I really want to know more about the land and experience it because I have heard nothing but amazing stories from people who have gone there, but I don't think that will happen for me anytime soon.
So in the meantime I would have to define my culture in terms of what made me who I am today, and looking at it in that aspect I feel like my family is my culture (as I'm sure most people feel).
I've just realized something this past week in moving away to college, and that is that I need my family so much more than I ever thought I did. When you are bombarded with unfamiliar experiences and new people who you have never met before, it is so easy to lose a sense of who you are and what you're all about. All I have to do to feel like myself again is just talk to a family member, and it doesn't matter who it is either. It could be one of my two brothers or my sister or my mom. Just listening to their advice and knowing that they know exactly how I am feeling is such a comfort. We all think and act the same for the most part, so in a sense we have created our own five person culture.
This is my immediate culture, and then I feel like I have an extended culture, which includes my cousins and friends, and although I definitely feel like I belong to that extended culture, nothing can quite compare to the feeling I get at home, with my family.
Posted by lcissullivan at September 13, 2005 04:20 PM
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