Throughout my journey this semester my eyes were opened and I started to see things in a different light. Why do I do the things I do? I pondered this question. So many things come naturally to a person throughout their life. Things we pay no mind to we just take them as being natural. Natural or naturalness as Barth states in the preface to Mythologies that in a word," I resented seeing Nature and History repeatedly confused in the description of our reality…" Well what does that mean? What Barth is saying is that what people take for nature are actually influenced upon as.Like for instance I am a Philly’s sport team fan; I LOVE the flyers but why? New Jersey has a team (who I hate) …. But I live in south jersey, my brother is a flyers fan, our community are flyers fans, it all has to do with influence. I decided to tackle this topic and see how much influences, specifically cultural ones, would and could influence a person and what I found was amazing!