Spend at least twenty minutes reflecting on the people who have contributed to your sense of cultural identity. This could include family members, mentors, teachers, peers, community leaders, artists, and more. Name each one and at least one way in which they contributed to your identity. You can complete this exercise in different ways: you could write a list; you could draw a timeline of your life and add people who influenced you; you could create a “mind map,” writing your name in a circle in the middle and connecting it to other circles with other people’s names. How you organize your cultural identity genealogy is less important than the process of creating it. After you have completed your cultural identity genealogy, take a few minutes to thank God for these individuals and the meaningful ways in which they have helped to shape and transform you.
Please share your thoughts (approximately 300 words).
