Cultural Resistance?

What is Cultural Resistance? Have you ever participated in an act of Cultural Resistance? How?

The way I understand Cultural Resistance is by opposing the mainstream. To go against anything that is expected of you and by you. To rebel against anything even to the most minimal extent. That’s how I understand Cultural Resistance to be. I believe I participate in an act of Cultural Resistance everyday of my life. I have 5 metal bars going through my face (piercing). That right there in my eyes is an act of opposing the mainstream, which has always told me to be pretty and clean cut. I have over 10 tattoos on my body. This is a little more settle seeing that you could only see my tattoos if I wanted you to see them but the fact is they are there and they are there for good. I resist my mothers Cultural all the time. Always have. I’m in an interracial relationship and I love my boyfriend very much. But what kind of “rebel” would I be with a clean-cut goody-goody boyfriend? That right there should give you a little visual of my controversial boyfriend. My choice of friends and choice of school I attend is an act of Cultural Resistance. Don’t get me wrong I don’t think I’m some hardcore badass. I believe there is much more to be done. But I think Cultural Resistance is something we need to do no matter to what level. I think it helps define us as who we are. Sets us apart from the others in the assembly line we’re born into.