Konopka: Ethnic Identity project

My Ethnic Ancestory: (as far as I know)
-Irish
-Polish
-German
-Scandanavian
-Indian








 Religious Affiliations:
Roman Catholic/ Christian and Lutheran

Holidays/ days of remembrance in my family:
We tend to celebrate most holidays including all religious holidays. Birthdays and anniversaries are big in my family as well and we always spend these days together.

I identify myself with my religion (roman catholic) and celebrate and embrace most of the religious holidays. As far as my ethnic ancestory I tend to mostly identify with being Irish and Polish since those are the two that are most prominent in my family.


I have not been personally harassed for my identity with either of my cultural or religious aspects. However I have been harassed within my relationships. I have been in biracial relationships and we would always get harassed by other people that did not like to see us together. My daughter is actually biracial and I have noticed that I do get some ridicule from this from both strangers and people close to me. I feel for her the pain that she may go through in life with the hard struggle of how she may identify herself.

Do you identify with a given culture than is not addressed in the above questions? Describe.
I do not see myself identifying with any particular culture. I feel that I am able to take bits from every culture that I can relate to and enjoy and combine them all together to form my very own sense of personal culture.