The ethnic Qarsherskiyan community has a unique and distinct assortment of cultures. That's right, cultures with an S, because it's plural. Different families have their own unique family traditions and customs influenced by their communities. 

Generally speaking, the main Qarsherskiyan groups, those living between Florida, Lake Erie, Missouri, and the Chesapeake Bay, have a blend of Black American and White American cultural practices due to their unique mixed race identity, with some families also having practices from Native American traditions, especially those families who are enrolled in federally or state recognized Native American tribes but of mixed ancestry and proudly belonging also to the Qarsherskiyan community. 

Jumping the broom at weddings, hiding an item on Christmas and giving a prize to whoever finds it first, cowry shell jewelry, folk practices or traditions, oral stories or legends, soul food recipes, barbecuing techniques, and playing the banjo are just some of the many customs and traditions in the Qarsherskiyan Creole community that some families have, although it varies from family to family. 

Many of the Tidewater, Appalachian Mountain, and Great Lakes - Midwest area Qarsherskiyan families consider the Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) and the American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) as well as related native chestnut species like Allegheny Chinquapin (Castanea pumila), Ozark Chinquapin (Castanea ozarkensis), and Alabama Chinquapin (Castanea alabamensis) to be sacred plant and animal species. In the Tidewater Region (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland, sometimes Delaware) many Qarsherskiyan families consider Spanish Moss, Bald Cypress and Pond Cypress, and Live Oak tree species to be sacred, holding symbolic meanings or containing practical used. Spanish Moss was traditionally used for bedding, insulation, as a fire starter, and can be used for making tea that is said to have some health benefits. Bald Cypress wood is rot resistant and it's an unusual tree, being both deciduous and a conifer, and once was a perfect nesting location for the sacred Carolina Parakeets. Many Qarsherskiyan families consider blue and green fires to be sacred, symbolizing purity and renewal. The plumage of the Carolina Parakeet also represents these colors of the sacred blue and green fires. 

The Qarsherskiyan community has members of many complexions and with many different hair types and looks, but in the Qarsherskiyan community, everyone is kinfolk and looks out for one another, and in modern times many different families have shared customs and traditions with one another. In the past, Qarsherskiyan people in Atlantic Canada usually wouldn't think the Carolina Parakeet was sacred, but Tidewater Qarsherskiyans and related communities from the main Qarsherskiyan groups have introduced this value to many of the Atlantic Canada based Qarsherskiyan families in modern times.