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Culture is an influential factor that can drive an individual’s values, views, desires, fears, and worries. In addition, belonging to a culture can provide people with a sense of identity, purpose and belonging. In our Cultures Resource Package we invite you to meet fascinating people who share stories of their culture, to hear from immigrants about life in their native land and what it meant to them to come to America, to learn from activists and historians on the value of culture in our lives, and to visit interesting places that reflect cultural values. We invite you to use the videos, lesson plans, activity ideas, reading lists and web resources in this package to take a trip from your class room to the world and back again as you learn about customs, arts, and achievements of these people and their cultures.