The point that I am trying to get across is that there is a distinct difference between race and culture. No matter how many times you here a Mexican say “la raza” that terminology is incorrect. Mexican is not a race, it is a culture. I define culture to be a group of people with similar habits or ideology. All races depend on culture, but not all cultures depend on race. Let us take the previous example, for instance. The gentleman made the assumption that all Mexicans mow lawns. This is a cultural stereotype. Although there

To acquire another prospective on culture, I recalled reading the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque. I remember a specific section where the main character, Paul, comes to the realization that he is now a member of a new culture and not just a citizen of Germany. He is a soldier. As he holds a wounded French soldier in his arms, he realizes that though they are both from different cultures, the culture of war binds them together. I believe that this ties into the idea of prejudice. Paul thrust his bayonet into the French soldier because he wore a different uniform. Later, as he spent more time with the soldier in the trench where they were both trapped, he made the mistake of opening the soldier’s wallet. In the wallet, he discovered photo identification along with pictures of the soldier’s family (Remarque, 193). Paul could now relate to this French soldier as they are both human beings doing their jobs. They were members of two different cultures but were also two members of the same macro- culture.

In order to further test my opinions on culture, I asked one of my fraternity brothers, Daniel Webster, to describe what he considers a culture to be. He remarked “a culture is the prevailing attitudes, beliefs, or ideas of a certain group of people.” The only difference between his statement and mine is that I regard culture as a group of people where as Daniel regards culture as the ideas of those people. However, I believe both statements to be correct.

Objectively speaking, I do not believe that one culture is better than another. I believe that a person chooses a lifestyle based

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