'That was Hannah Montana'

    I am feeling culture and identity has been discussed in a very fast matter and pushed into our brains to a point I cringe when someone says the words identity and culture. I tend to be blunt but this is a blog and I'm frustrated.  We talk about for an hour and then we move onto the next topic for the next day's discussion. It does not matter how long we talk about culture, identity, disabilities, assessments, we will not become good teachers if we don't practice working with these topics.
     Also I am feeling that I lack a culture and this has made my feel inadequate to teach students of different racial and or cultural backgrounds because I am not one of them. I am here not because I am white or of a social class, I am here because I worked hard and I want to make students to 'do better'. We all have a culture, we have all been bullied, we all have weaknesses, that is what makes us unique and we need to have our strengths define us.
    I will be a good teacher despite the race difference, despite the social class difference, I will be a good teacher because to me your race doesn't make you a bad student, your social class doesn't keep you from attending college, it is you, the student.
     Some look at Miley Cyrus as trashy and questionable but at least she is doing what she wants and is being who she wants to be. She said in an interview, "I was never the Disney Child Star, that was Hannah Montana". In a more recent interview, she explained how artists in the hip hop/rap genre ask her [Miley], 'do you know what kind of music you are making?' suggesting that a young Caucasian adult cannot make music about twerking or clubs. She replied along the lines that she knew what kind of music she was making. Although I do not like the music she is making at least she does not make excuses for or hide who she is.