Short response 2

Culture, for me, has never been an important part of my life. The strongest part of my blood heritage is Italian, but because I am not close with many of my family members this has never had a significant impact on my life (aside from my love of spaghetti, ha). Though I suppose this may be the reason for my aversion to physical contact. When I was younger I was extremely shy and greatly valued my personal space, so as you can imagine being in a roomful of boisterous, affectionate Italians was like the 9th circle of hell for me.

As far as religion goes, I suppose I could be labeled a Baptist. While I occasionally participate in the more common aspects of said religion (like prayer and whatnot) I am much more relaxed about the ‘rules’ than a lot of my fellow believers. Again, this may be because in my early years I was shifted from pillar to post in my church life, I guess not much besides the basics stuck with me. I don’t believe I ever fully grasped the meaning of ‘fellowship’ that seems to be so important to this religion, so I imagine that hinders my church growth as well.

As far as subcultures I’m involved in, I cannot pinpoint a specific one. I like to believe I’m a little bit of everything. That being said, while I’m not necessarily goth or punk, I enjoy certain aspects of both scenes and they are the two cultures that I can most identify with. One of the main reasons for this is I love a lot of the clothing styles, from the chains to the corsets (though this latter one may be because I secretly believe I was born in the wrong century, but that’s a whole other story).