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Prompts to explore your roots.

Reflect on culture, family traditions, and belonging, and how your background shapes who you are.

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How can I show more empathy toward someone who is struggling with a language barrier by being more patient and finding new ways to communicate?

Self-Reflection
Compassion
Communication
Cultural
Medium

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Do you ever feel like you are just a version of your ancestors walking around today?

Social
Identity
Cultural
Childhood
Medium

What is a language, culture or tradition I am grateful to have learned about?

Self-Reflection
Gratitude
Cultural
Low

Do I enjoy learning about other cultures?

Self-Reflection
Fun
Cultural
Low

When do I feel pressured to fit into societal norms and how does that conflict with my truth?

Self-Reflection
Authenticity
Cultural
Identity
Medium

Pick one cultural value about hard work or rest that you grew up with and write one sentence on whether your daily schedule actually reflects it.

Action
Cultural
Work
Alignment

How can I be more mindful of the way I judge others for their political or social opinions without actually talking to them?

Self-Reflection
Mindfulness
Awareness
Cultural
Medium

What's a way your culture talks about money that you think is more harmful than helpful?

Social
Cultural
Money
Medium

How did my family talk about their heritage or history and how much of that history do I carry as part of my own identity?

Self-Reflection
Childhood
Cultural
Identity
Medium

How did my caregivers handle conflict with neighbors or the community and what did I learn about us versus them?

Self-Reflection
Childhood
Cultural
Relationships
Medium

Write down one expectation from where you grew up that you've stopped following.

Action
Cultural
Authenticity

Find one book or album this month from the cultural background you grew up in that you haven't explored yet.

Action
Cultural
Identity

Why do I feel like spending money on an experience is harder to justify than spending it on something I can hold?

Self-Reflection
Money
Cultural
Medium

Do you think we focus too much on identity and not enough on just being people?

Social
Identity
Awareness
Cultural
Medium

How did my family handle the arts was it something for other people or was it a core part of our family identity?

Self-Reflection
Childhood
Identity
Cultural
Medium

Look up the meaning of one word or phrase from your family's cultural background that you've heard but don't fully understand and write it down.

Action
Cultural
Identity

What's a social rule from your upbringing about how you treat guests or hosts that most people you know now don't share?

Social
Cultural
Medium

How did I feel about my family name and heritage as a child and how has that sense of belonging changed as I've grown up?

Self-Reflection
Childhood
Identity
Cultural
Medium

Why does calling myself an overconsumer feel like a character flaw when I know it's mostly a cultural setup?

Self-Reflection
Money
Cultural
Medium

Write down one cultural expectation about how people in your community talk about money in public and decide if you've adjusted what you say to fit it.

Action
Cultural
Money
Authenticity

Have you gone through an underconsumption phase where you stopped buying things just because and did it stick?

Social
Money
Cultural
Medium

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