Cultural Baggage

Cultural Baggage
By Barbara Ehrenreich

The author of this essay is really telling the reader that there can be an ethnicity of none. People don’t have to act like their ancestors used to, people can chose to have their own then ethnicity and culture. These are our rights and we as people should embrace them, not hide them by just saying, “Oh, my ancestors did this and this so I will continue to do it that way.” That is not the way to do things, unfortunately that is how it works even our author who has an ethnicity of none still displays an ethnicity because she is fallowing down. She glad her children inherited this way of thinking, but is she really considering the fact that indeed she has just created another ethnicity through which they may have numerous rituals. By rituals I mean Friday is pizza night, or other things that are done as a family groups and bonds that would never be broken. Fortunately for me I admit I have created my own culture through which I included pieces of the two I know about American and Cuban. It is hard to know where to draw the line because every time something is created this other is has a name so it really isn’t changing much.