Culture Backgroung

Cultural Background

Though we all may be living in one nation under the same laws, there are some factors that divide us that make us individuals, and those factors are cultural differences and similarities. Most become accustom to culture during the years of childhood. Culture is developed mostly by what we see and hear from family and those of our same background. In often times, we tend to develop our own views and opinions toward culture, from what we learned as children and alter our ways of thinking and viewing things, we alter our culture. The ways we alter our culture may be a result of exposure, exploring different backgrounds, beliefs, and different ways of living. It broadens our horizon and gives us perspective of more than what we were taught in childhood.

Food and Culture

The most recognized difference in the dominant American culture and African American culture is the African American food. The African American food popular known as soul food consists of a rich culinary delight of different types of meat combined with vegetables, eaten as soup or along with some other items. People from different cultural backgrounds eat different foods. The ingredients, methods or preparation, preservation techniques, and types of food eaten at different meals vary among cultures. The areas in which families live and where their ancestors originated influences food like and dislikes. These food preferences result in patterns of food choices within a cultural or regional group.

I first learn of my food culture through my parents. I listen at them talk about how their parents use to grow their foods from their garden and how they raised pigs. The family was big on pork, because it was the only thing they could afford in the late fifties and this type of meat was past down from generation to generation. I also adapt to eating this type of food as I mention early in my paper as soul food. On Sunday’s my mother would prepare the tradition family meal...