Discovering Your Cultural Identity
To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves,
that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God…We remember because
it is an easy thing to forget that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight,
love and die
--Alice Walker
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Circles of Our Multicultural Selves
Seeing ourselves in more than one circle,
dancing in/between center and margin…
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Directions:
- Write your name in the center circle.
- In the smaller circles, write the names of five groups with which you identify.
- Sit and think about these groups for a few minutes.
- Be prepared to discuss the groups with your writing partner or with your
classmates. Try to find one group that you belong to that you think will surprise
them. Groups can be family, ethnic, country, religious, academic, artistic,
hobby, talents, etc.
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use only. Copyright 2002, ARTSEDGE and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
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