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Living in Minnesota my entire life I became accustoms to the wide varieties of cultures and diversity the city has to offer. I am a first generation living here in the United States because my parents moved here from India. Growing up in the dense suburbs I had to conform into the culture of the mass population, thus losing my cultural background while at school. Overtime I blended so well that my diversity went unnoticed by my peers and I was no longer a minority to them, although outside of school I still felt that it was important to stay true to my ethnicity.
Over the years I learned to blend in with the majority of my peers, whether it is how they dress, their language between friends and families, and activities inside and out of school. And by conforming to these ways my peers no longer recognized me of different cultural background and how outside of school I am a different person. I am an Indian, Muslim, meaning when I go home I don’t speak English to my family, I speak Urdu, I eat different foods with all sorts of spices, and I even have different cultural decorations arranged in my home. The relationship I have with my parents is also different than most of my friends. They required a different level of respect and sometimes have expectations that reached beyond my limits. Such as in school I think it goes unnoticed the amount of additional work I give to sports and clubs; instead of solely getting good grades.
Most of my peers sometimes overlooked this simple factor because of how culturally I have blended to act like the mass population, and only came to recognize the differences when meeting my family or visiting my home. Outside of school I teach at an Islamic Center that withholds hundreds of families from different cultures and background. I also go to several events in the city that showcase and embrace the diversity that the city holds. This is extremely important to me because I feel that I should always be in touch with my ethnicity, and all the glory that comes along with having a different cultural background, because I don’t always get to represent myself at school.