Culture

America’s Culture
Do you remember your first baseball game? Do you remember the smell of the steaming hot dogs on a grill, thousands of cheering fans and those delicious peanuts, with their discarded shells decorating the floor? Baseball is part of American culture. American culture is a blend of foreign cultures, mixed with our own new blend, like a pot of soup each ingredient adding more flavor to our society. Our English language, our styles of clothing, and our styles of dancing, can mostly be traced back to other cultures that influenced our own, generally European. Our industrialization, our tendency to want things instantaneously, our cars, and foods, such as hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream, and potato chips have all been added to our culture over the years that make America, America.

My Culture
My culture has been influenced by my family. A mix of American and Polish traditions fills my house. My mom is entirely Polish, along with her brother and three sisters. One large example of this is Christmas Eve, my close family, (dad, mom, sister, and Grandma) goes to our Christen Church to see the play they produce each year. Then we go to my Aunt Cindi’s house, with my entire family and have an authentic Polish meal. We enjoy Golabki (cabbage stuffed with rice and ground beef) Periogis (a dumpling filled with potatoes and cheese) sour crout and kielbasa (a sausage.) My aunt and uncle prepare all day for the meal, and it’s the best! Afterwards my grandma always has host, and splits it among my cousins and I. Then, if anyone isn’t going to be at the party we have on Christmas Day they share the gifts then. Until around nine o’clock my cousins and I run around the house causing mischief, waiting for Christmas day.
This makes my family different than others because we celebrate Christmas, go to a Christian Church, eat delicious Polish food, and enjoy Grandma’s host, while some others don’t. No matter what heritage you are, one thing is the same is the joy and celebration that fills a house on a holiday.