Cultural Autobiography: A Study of Brazilian and Romanian Culture

Cultural
Autobiography

Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Main Body...................................................................................................................................................3
Culture Autobiography with identification of major influence on own life.............................................3
Create cultural biography of some deemed person who belong from different cultural background.......4
Compare and Contrast of two profiles using different cultural frameworks............................................5
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................6
References...................................................................................................................................................8
Appendices..................................................................................................................................................9
Questionnaire...........................................................................................................................................9

Introduction
Culture is basically known as the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of
people. It includes religion, language, social habits, music which are followed by the members of
a group. It has a profound influence over personality of an individual which remains with a
person lifelong. Each and every culture is different thus the people also behave in different
manner. Their behavior is unique and based on the culture they belong (Steinmetz, 2018). The
present study is an autobiography which includes my cultural dimension. My family background,
nationality, religion, rituals, daily habits are going to discuss the study. Further, it also includes
cultural autobiography of a Romanian person. The assignment covers differences as well as
similarities in the culture of my and one of my Romanian friend. Moreover, the study is based
on different culture dynamics which are crucial to understand the culture of different countries.
Main Body
Culture Autobiography with identification of major influence on own life
Family plays a crucial role in shaping the overall personality of a person. Cultural
insights are given to an individual by family members. In Family, there are a lot of members who
influence in different manner. Fathers are responsible to impart value, ethics to children. With
this, a child gets to know how to behave in society. In extended family, person lives with
grandparents, uncle, aunt and other members. These all members contribute in some or other
way in shaping of career of an individual (Benedict, 2019).
In my case, I have born in Brazil in an Italian family. My family is originated from Italy.
My grandparents are Italian who moved in Brazil in looking of standard and quality life. I am
privilege enough to live with an extended family where I live with my grandparents and parents
as well. I learned a lot from my grandparents. Their experience will help me in facing difficult
situations in upcoming years of my life. My grandmother is a really intelligent, honest and brave
woman. She is the great source of knowledge. I learned a lot from her knowledge and expertise
that is going to help in career enrichment in future period of time

My culture influenced me in a lot of way. We used to wake up early in the morning, have
breakfast, listening religious programs on radio and more. This is my daily routine which I got
from my culture. It makes me discipline as I used to do each and every activity of my daily
routine in systematic way. As per my culture rice, meat, pasta is the part of our daily food. These
food habits keep me healthy and provide me nutrition to perform different activities through the
day. Rather doing party on Sunday, I go to church with my family and friends. I learned it from
my culture that we should show the gratitude through prayers for whatever we have in life.
There is a city called nova Venecia wherein majority of Italian families live there. I live
near downtown. Here, all the essential facilities such as banks, market, hospitals are present
nearby. However, there is no night clubs and cinemas near my locality. Still, I do not feel
dishearten as I have a football playground in nearby. I play football with my friends during
afternoon time. When we exhaust after playing football we sit on bench present in playground.
Here, we use to play acoustic guitar and sing brazil songs. I grew up in a normal background
where I used to spend time with my friends and family. I also got opportunity to get significant
knowledge through quality education.
I completed my initial education from Claudinabarbosa. Then, I enrolled in Veneciano
School. However, I have not completed graduation as I moved to another city which is England.
During my school days, my teacher enlightened me with kind words and pushed me to attain my
goals. I started my first professional work as a delivery man. Later, I found a job of sales man at
the pasta branch where I used to handle market of North of state.
With the above written biography, It is said that I exposed with different culture as my
family originally belong from Italy. However, we were living in Brazil so we used to follow the
culture of Brazil. My habits, personality, daily routine is profoundly affected with the culture I
grew up. I grew up in an extended family where I got love of my parents and grandparents as
well. However, my educational background is not highly strong as I have not completed my
under-graduation. I am elevated with whatever I have and moving from one country to another
gives me exposure of different culture. Inspite of moving in England, I am still attach with my
roots and completely satisfied with whatever I am doing.