Culture......

When someone says the word culture what comes into your mind? There are many different views of what culture means to someone. In the dictionary culture means, the totality of socially transmitted behavior, patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought characteristic of a community or population. In the book we read it meant the world made meaningful , it is socially constructed and maintained through communication. It limits as well as liberates us, it differentiates as well as unites us, it defines our realities and thereby shapes the ways we think, feel and act.
When I think of the word culture is means family, history, where you yourself came from. It means traditions and dances that your family has repeated for several decades. Without culture this world be the same. The word same means someone or something identical with another, now why would we want this? The world is filled with so many new and different cultures, and because of this fact the world will never be the "same."
About me: My family is Mexican, and with that said, I do have alot of traditions in my culture. I am catholic and being catholic gives you the oportunity to expeciance a quiencenera. Not many of you know what a queiencenera is, but it is a celebration. This celebrates a womans 15years of age, it mostly means that you have become a young lady and not a child anymore. This title gives you more responsiblity, rules, and respect that they expect you to follow in your life. Being Mexican also gives me the privilage to say I am bilingual. Being bilingual is such an advantage in my life, and this also difines you and the culture you came from, the lanugages you speek tells everyone the culture thats behind your face.