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The clothes and other items you wear
The way you speak or use certain words or phrases or slang when interacting with your family, friends, peers, or community, either in real life or online
The way you write in any capacity (for school, for fun, to learn, to communicate, etc.)
The way you create art, make food, or move
Religious or other cultural traditions you observe, whether they are connected to holidays or the daily ways you behave
Sample: I express my culture most often around the Christmas and New Year holidays, where family traditions are observed. Every year around Christmas, my family and I make lefse, which is sort of like a very flat pancake made out of potatoes. It is a Norwegian tradition and my grandmother taught me how to make it. My family and I now make it and share it with our friends. To eat it, you smear butter over one side and then sprinkle brown or plain sugar over the butter and then roll the whole thing up like a Fruit Roll-up and eat it. We also sing Norwegian Christmas songs like “O Jul Med Din Glede” and greet each other with Norwegian phrases. Outside of the holidays, my Norwegian heritage expresses itself mostly the way we spend money and treat the environment. We tend to be frugal, saving luxuries only for special occasions, and we use and reuse everything we have—a practice that comes from our ancestors having to stretch their resources across cold, hard winters.

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