My Cultural Identity Poster Pictures and Explanations

I wanted to give general information about my country. Turkey is located on very historical area of the earth.

My country called Ottoman Empire around 100 years ago so I wanted to put their symbol and show them how big the country was and how big it is now.

This is the Ottoman Empire on a map when they reached their biggest.

Mevlana is very well known saint who lived in Turkey and died year 1273. The United Nations declared 2007 The Year of Rumi and celebrations were held world wide.

Cultural Identity Wrap-up

The most important thing that I learned in this unit is melting pot and salad bowl. I think we all should know that we don`t have to change ourselves and try to be American. Today America is not melting pot anymore, America is a salad bowl where we all can come together see differences on each other and learn from them.

Cultural Identity Warp-Up

I chose these pictures, because the pictures can represent the identity of China. The roast duck is the most of famous food in the China. The secod picture, two people is wearing the Chinese style dress. Most of Chinese people who is getting married, they will wear this dress. Because it also is part of Chinese culture identity. The third picture, it is a kind of folk snack in China. The crab apple in side and candy cover it. You can see lots of these kind of Chinese folk snack is sold on the street if you in China.

Cultural Identity Wrap-up

The most important thing I've learned in this unit is that we should be determined when we're facing other people's prejudice. From the passage named"Do I Look Like Public Enemy Number One", I knew that a girl who is a Arabic, often treat as a terrorist. She first felt like an outsider in school, but later she realized that it is unnecessary to care other people's prejudice to you. For us, sometimes we don't need to care about too much about what other people said. We just need to behave ourselves.

Hello,every one. This is a poster that about traditional festival of China. The first festival I mentioned in the poster is the Spring Festival. The reason why I chose this image to help express this festival is that there is a tiger there which represent our lunar year of tiger. This is a huge festival in China. We celebrate it by eating big dinner, staying with family and visiting family! What's more, the second festival I introduced to all of you, is the Lantern Festival. We stay with family and play with the lantern, also we eat Tangyuan together,which is a symbol of good luck. Then, is the mid-autumn festival,another big festival in China.We also stay with family, enjoying the moon and eating the moon cakes together. Lastly, is the Chinese's Valentine's day--Qixi. This festival is based on a fairy tale of Niulang and Zhinv. I love all the festivals in China. It means a lot to me.

Cultural Identity Warp-Up

In this unit on cultural identity, I learned some new ideas. The most important and interesting ideas is “melting pot” and “salad bowl”. Using the melting pot and salad bowl describe the culture. Different countries would have the different cultures. Some people were move to other country and that would join in to that culture. I believe that an America is very amazing country. Everyone is same and not care where the people from, but also we can tell everyone is different. Some people want to be in country so they will act like an American.

Mexican Culture!

My Poster shows some of the things I miss from my country, what I used to celebrate and places that I like. At the lower-right side is the food, what I used to eat and I love, like tacos, gorditas, carnse asada, guacamole and some candies like “Dulce de Leche” my favorite one. Just above the food there are some things that I have embraced and I really like from America.

This is a famous “Calavera de Azucar” it is a Sugar Skull, it is used for a special tradition we have, "El Dia de Muertos" (The Day of the Dead). In this day we celebrate all our deceased relatives, we make an Altar with thinks they liked when they were alive, usually things like food, liquor, personal objects, and also we can add the “Sugar Skulls”, flowers and pictures of the dead person.This is an important image for almost every Mexican that is catholic, La Virgen de Guadalupe (the virgin of Guadalupe). It’s a symbol of hope for every Mexican, because the story says that the virgin helps us to overcome an epidemic.

I add this picture because this is the logo of my country, you can find it everywhere, in the flag, in the coins and money. The history of this is so good and with a lot of meaning.