1. When you think about your own culture, your first thought may be your ethnicity or your race. But there may be many other cultural variables that are at least as important. As a clinical psychologist, I have learned from some of my own clients that certain cultural characteristics other than ethnicity or race were at the core of their identities. For one woman, it was her religion (she was a Modern Orthodox Jew); for another, it was his sexual orientation (he was gay); for another, it was her geographical upbringing (she grew up and still lived in a tiny rural town). One teenage client even proudly told me that he was from

“skater culture”—not just that he skateboarded, but he had adopted the entire lifestyle that encompasses skateboarding—and that if I didn’t get skater culture, I couldn’t get him.
If you saw a psychologist, which of your cultural characteristic(s)
would the psychologist have to get in order to get you? Are you a typical member of that culture, or do you differ from most others in some way?