Cultural Believes Autobiography

Cultural Beliefs Autobiography The first thought that comes to my head when I hear cultural beliefs I think of the things that make a person who they are. Things that people will fight for and stand up for no matter what anyone says or thinks. I, myself am not much about being outspoken, but when it comes to what I believe in and what I value, I will fight for my beliefs and values. According to our text culture is “the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought characteristic of a community or a population”. The culture we are raised in effects our future identity and how others will perceive us. The definition of identity is "the fact of being who or what a person or thing is". I have grown up in Indiana all of my life, but I was born in Iowa. I do not consider myself to be from Iowa because I was too young to remember anything about it. Since I was six months, I have been in Indiana. When I think about my values and beliefs and I would not categorize myself as a ‘traditional’ Midwesterner. My life has and probably will always be different from others, but I know that my belief system came from me and what I think is right and wrong, not from others. I do now recognize that my culture and environment has aided in creating my identity, but I believe that I have taken the negatives, prejudices, and racism that have surrounded me since I was born and created my own set of cultural beliefs. My life has given me the opportunity to become a much-diversified person when it comes to cultural beliefs. My first belief that I will discuss is my agnostic belief in religion. Agnostic means one does not know whether or not there is god, but rather holds a belief that there is something, but we just do not have enough information to make a good decision about what that 'something' is. My entire life I was raised in the Baptist faith. I have been to a diverse amount of churches and done a