Why is culture important and how does it answer the question "What is cultural identity?". Culture is the underlying foundation of traditions and beliefs (27) _____ help a person relate to the world around them. It is the basis for (28) _____ superstitions they may have. It is the aversion to specific types of meat, or which days you can work on. Culture gives us a definite starting (29) _____ when beginning to search for our roots. Knowing where a person comes from will help to define how they look at their family obligations (30) _____ how they celebrate important milestones in life.
As a person has given up their cultural identity, they can no longer identify themselves with the things that were once the most important things in their lives. They lose direction. As time (31) _____ by and they continue to forget about their past and their natural traditions, their identity becomes less and less pronounced.