My Daughter Darla’s Essay On Culture
23 Oct
Two years ago I featured my daughter Leni’s school essay on the topic of how she considered her own culture. Her younger sister, Darla, who is now a sophomore, got assigned the same essay in her English class, and I am proud to share it here.
A Reflective Essay on Culture
“Wait, you’re Jewish?” he said.
With that question, I began to see the eyes of my classmates swiftly settle on me, observing, perhaps judging. Trying to answer the boy’s question for me, trying to determine if I was in fact a Jew. Did I look like one? Could they tell?
“Yeah,” I answered, nodding slightly and awkwardly smiling.
“Huh,” he remarked thoughtfully, “I thought you were Catholic or something. You look Catholic.”
That statement raised a question in my mind immediately, how does a person look Catholic? Thankfully, most of my classmates were thinking the same thing, and many laughed, telling him he was […]
