Ones culture is the foundation on which someone bases his or her life. Culture is defined as the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects passed from one generation to the next. If one were to cause an alteration to these familiarized practices, others will find them abnormal or unnatural and provide us with negative sanctions. A negative sanction is an expression of disapproval for breaking a norm such as a dirty look, vulgarity, etc. There are two types of culture, material culture and nonmaterial culture. Material culture is simply described as something you can physically touch. Nonmaterial culture is a groups way of thinking and common patterns of behavior. Growing up, I have developed my own set of cultural normalities. Not only do I learn these norms and values from my parents teaching me, but from the society around me. However, my parents are two different races, which can lead to two different cultures. My mother who lived in the Philippines up until her late twenties, married my American dad a few years later after immigrating. My mother used to feed me all the time when I was a little girl and oddly, instead of using forks and knives, she constantly fed me with her hands. Throughout the next couple years that I was still young, I learned that eating with your hands was something completely normal. And when I say eating with my hands, I dont mean it like I was eating how a 2 year old child would by picking up a spaghetti noodle and dangling it over my mouth and eat but forming your hand a certain way and carefully placing it in my mouth. However, as I grew older and started to understand the culture in America more, I saw that eating with your hands looked absolutely repulsive and was an action that normal people definitely didnt do. My little sister also inhabited this habit for awhile when she was young and whenever I had my friends over for dinner and we would sit at the table with my family