*Concept I found most interesting in this week's reading*

In chapter 12, I found "Cultural identities are overlapping" to be most interesting. Because, we really are apart of many different cultures, not just nationality, but all the aspects that make up who we are. "We all belong to national, regional, class, ethnic, religious, professional, age and gender cultures. At various times, one or more of these identities may become crucial while the rest fade into the background." (Trenholm. P. 347) This is very true, say for example, if I'm at church on a Sunday morning, my spiritual side will come out more. Then if I'm at work, my professional side comes up and I'm all about work, focused, Then of course, when I'm with my ladies, my female role comes out more and we do what girls do best. Different situations bring out our layers of identities. This is why it takes multiple times of hanging out with someone, to really get to know them and see the different cultural sides of them. Therefore, each individual has something different to bring to the table, we've all had different experiences and paths. "This allows us to be unique individual rather then cultural clones." (Trenholm. P. 347) The way I see it, no single individual has the exact same finger prints. We're all very unique and are brought onto this earth for different purposes.