Does your culture define you as a person or vice versa?

Culture is a shared, learned, symbolic system of values, beliefs and attitudes that shapes and influences perception and behavior--, an abstract "mental print" or "mental code." This definiton can be easily understood and reduced to just two words: people's behavior which is not wrong but it might sometimes vary because even though it affects to define whether you are a good person and citizen or not, as well as the place where you come from, it does not state all about you, your personality, your values, qualities and defects, and as I mentioned before it does affect people because there are many cases in which they may conform according the culture. Trying to search a statement that helps me reassert my viewpoint, I found one extremely interesting, at least for me because it states exactly what I am willing to pass on you, it is a quote from Jimmy Carter (one of the former presidents of the United States): "We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." It is such a great way of giving a second meaning to the idea I just stated above because it clearly explains to us that we are not all exactly the same either physically or mentality which simultaneously clears up any misunderstanding with this quote's idea. We are all raise with common beliefs and customs that are shaped through life by parents, schooling, peer groups and media, but it also depends on what you want to show to the world, what impression you are trying to cause and how you want people look at you. People all around the world have got used to generalize or stereotype just by meeting another country's person, which is going towards the wrong path because you can meet 2 guys from the same country, and they do not even speak in the same way or have common behaviors.