As a World Language teacher, I often focus my efforts on students' language development. However, I have struggled to help students find relevance and meaning in the cultures of people from distant countries and communities. My Spanish classes were full of teenagers with different backgrounds in terms of ethnicity, language, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic status. For my students, race, gender, and sexual orientation were more central to their lives than any celebration in Spain or tradition in Guatemala. Using a social justice framework and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP), teachers can help students not only learn languages but also grow as critical and global citizens who help affirm and sustain cultures and peoples of the world. In this paper, I will share how I changed the way I approached teaching about culture as a way to help other educators think about how they may do so in their classrooms.