Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Weiss_Cultural_info


Grant Weiss

GD 300

10/23/12


Cultural Identity Project

My family history does not go back as far as some families. My family is 50% Dutch, and 50% Russian. Both of my parents were born in America, but their families lived overseas. As I said I don’t have much of an ancestry. We are a Christian family, and have always celebrated Christmas. Though my father was Jewish we decided to only celebrate the one holiday. I have never been exposed to any sort of harassment due to my background. My father used to be ridiculed for being Jewish unfortunately. But I personally have never been wronged in that way. My family is Caucasian. There are no other relationships in my family. I don’t know why, I don’t ever think it has mattered. Allot of my family has passed away on both my mom and my dad’s side, so my knowledge is based only on my parents. I haven’t even met some of my close family, which really adds some ambiguity to my family’s history.                    I have plenty of friends across different ethnic backgrounds. Oddly enough it has only been the past few years that I have been exposed to a much more diverse community. Where I am from there are not many people that aren’t white. It is very weird and paints an awful stigma over the town that I come from. My friends that aren’t white back at home have been targeted at times, especially by the police. I have never really been bothered by anyone, but it does upset me to see some of my friends get messed with.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 I think I would like to use the large poster format, 11x17 following the integrative outline and structure. I feel like this format being large, will help my piece get its point across.

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