Multi-Cultural?

Multi-culturalism is a big deal for some. But it seems to me that many of those placing an emphasis on multiculturalism think to narrowly. For most, multi-culturalism means respecting and being a part of multiple world cultures (think "race" here). By that definition, I am merely a white male of Germanic heritage who is U.S citizen. However, I think, for us who live in these United Sates, one is easily multicultural right where we are. In that light, I consider myself quite multicultural. I was born and spend my childhood through early adulthood in St. Louis, MO (unique midwestern city culture). I then had a job transfer that took me to big town (not city) Tennessee (the South). After seven years, I then moved back to St. Louis with wife and 2 kids on the way to go to Seminary. Vicarage was spent in Cape Girardeau, MO (smaller city, Southern MO). And now I have lived in the entirely different and unique culture of Gulf Coast Texas for almost three years. Each culture has had an influence on me and has shaped and formed who I am today. To this day, I identify each of them as part of me. I am a Missourian, a Tennessean, and a Texan. In my mind, culture isn't so much defined by race as it is by location - each region of a nation (especially the United States) enjoying its own unique practices, customs, foods, art, music, style, and general way of life. Culture is much more local than most socialogists, demographers, and others in academia would like to think and categorize us. Each of us are incredibly unique. And, to the consternation of pollsters and demographers, I like it that way.