Throughout my life so far, I have had a various amount of influences that have really influences who I am today and have changed my beliefs and outlooks to the ones I have today. I grew up in an Italian and Portuguese household, after my parents divorced the households became different. One household was strictly Italian with the Catholic beliefs and the strong right and wrong based on the bible beliefs, in the other household, I feel like things were more easygoing and not hard to deal with. It was hard growing up because my parents were both catholic but for some reason had pretty different beliefs due to what their life was like growing up.
I had to make influences for myself, by watching movies and listening to music and coming to conclusions about my own ideas of what life is like. After influencing myself to wear what I want to wear, what I believe in, and to the extent of how my beliefs are going to shape the way my life is like it really helped me find what my true identity really is and how I would change things to avoid any problems in my life. I believe what is right, not what is ignorant and that is the way that life should be in today’s society.
When it comes to food, my family does not follow the correct lifestyle of the culture that we are in, we eat what our culture like for example: Pasta, Pizza, Caneloni, Lasagna, some desserts like Canoli’s, Zepoles. has to offer but we also eat other foods, it does not really matter. For fashion, we dress the way we want to dress, as the years go on the fashion changes so that is what we follow rather than what is culturally appropriate.
For architecture, considering that I live with my Italian parent, our culture goes all the way to Italy. The architecture that Italy has to offer contains a wide variety of different beautiful buildings like “The Trevi Fountain”, and “The Leaning Tower of Pisa”, the amount of architecture in Italy is really hard to keep up with but the two I listed are really famous back in Italy. As for leisure activities, Dancing in Italy is very famous, the most famous Italian dance is called the Tarentella. Another leisure activity is singing, in Italy, Opera is very famous.
To conclude, I do like how i was given a great amount of aspects to life, I have many different outlooks on the way life is and the way life should be like. I can’t say that it has been easy to keep the same beliefs that I have had since I was little but to be honest they have really been all of the beliefs that I am truly used to.
Where Do I Fit In? 