One can define culture as the totality of ideas, beliefs, values and knowledge of a group of individuals who share certain historical experiences. An ethnic group, on the other hand, shares a common language, race, religion or national origin. In one country there may be more than one ethnic group. At the same time we may find several cultures within one ethnic group. Enid Lee gives us a useful tool for looking at the many different cultural identities we all have.
Ethnicity is certainly one important aspect, as is race.
However, there are other powerful cultural influences, gender, socio-economic class, religion and life events can also give us a shared culture with people from different countries who have experienced similar lives. Keep your description private for now. Think about your co-workers and put them inside the petal of culture. Describe how you think each petal influences who they are. Keep your description private for now.