Culture is all the things that make up certain ways of life or living. That includes all the beliefs and values, language, customs, fashion, food, and music that belong to a group of people. Specifically, a person's cultural identity can come from the way they take certain aspects of each of the cultures as well as aspects of themselves and personal life and use them to shape and define who they are. In my case, my cultural identity can all be surrounded by three main topics, my race, religion, and my family. My cultural identity roots from internal and external conflicts with family, and peers which can all be symbolized by the idea of language as a whole. For the most part, I would begin by describing my race, as that plays a huge role in who I am. My parents are immigrants from Afghanistan, which means their viewpoints and experiences have changed and shape them differently. Race comes with a variety of different aspects like food, language, and music. All of these are huge aspects of my life. There variety of different foods that I’ve grown a taste for and learning from my mother. How she teaches me her own recipes, and as I practice I’ve also learned that it's okay to make mistakes and learned to have patience and just to have fun with food, I've learned, has always tasted better with the company of friends and family. The scrumptious smells from the kitchen on a weekend night …show more content…
Personally, my cultural identity can be branched into three main topics, my race, religion, and my family. My cultural identity roots from internal and external conflicts with family, and peers which can all be symbolized by the idea of language as a whole. Overall everyone has their own unique and different aspects that their cultural identity roots from and to learn about them is like opening a new chapter in a
Growing up as a first generation Chinese-American, I felt as if I was stranded in the void between two worlds, isolated and alone. At school, I hid my Chinese self and tried to be more ‘American’ in order to fit in. At home, I then carefully tucked away my American half and acted the dutiful Chinese son to please my parents. If Chinese and American were two planets, I was a vagabond flitting back and forth between them, unsettled and insecure, never quite belonging in either one.
My cultural identity consists of being a 22-year-old white female who identifies as White, heterosexual, Christian-Lutheran, able-bodied and a member of the lower-middle class. Through these identities, there are certain roles that I distinguish with like being a student, daughter, sister, and friend. Socioeconomic
Starting with one of the surface aspects of my cultural identity is my language. I speak English, like most people who were born in America I learned English and only English right from the start. I
What is culture? Many people ask themselves this question every day. The more you think about it the more confusing it is. Sometimes you start leaning to a culture and then people tell you you’re wrong or they make you feel like a different person because of your culture. I go through this almost every day. Because of the way I was raised I love Mexican rodeo but I was born and raised in Joliet. This can be very difficult trying to understand culture. I live in this huge mix of culture. Culture is personal. People can have many cultures especially in America and because of globalization. Cultural identity is not one or the other, it is not Mexican or American. Cultural identity is an individual relevant thing.
Everyone has a background, a past and a cultural identity. Our cultural identity identifies who we are and where we come from. My cultural identity shows how I talk, what kind of language I speak, what kind of foods I eat, the way I dress and the way I look. Your cultural identity has a lot to do with where you are from and where you are going in life.
My personal cultural identity is a lot different compared to the society I am surrounded by. I am considered an outsider in my society. I am an outsider living in a constantly changing environment where there are many different kinds of people and many different cultural identities. In my culture we know how to respect people and their belongings, know how to work hard, use what we have while being thankful for it at the same time, and last we know how to stay true to ourselves in this very fast pace world of ours. I am a cowboy.
I am proud to be who I am. I love everything about my culture. Music, food. and religion are all important aspects in my cultural. My parents and family members are huge role models to me of helping me understand my background. Although I do try my best to represent who I am as a Palestinian I do face many external and internal problems in my culture. The main idea of this is to explain my cultural identity and how it has affected my life.
I have never really sat down and thought about my cultural identity, at least until I started this class. I never thought about how my identity was different than that of other members in my community. I also never put much mind to the communication challenges that I could face when speaking with members of my community. To be totally honest, there is more cultural differences that I have faced and actually paid attention to, and now I seem to understand the importance of how one culture differs from another.
America is a melting pot of different cultures, traditions, and languages. A variety of people is what makes this country. A mixture of what the people have inside themselves, makes America. The difference in ideals creates a society in which people can do and think freely as they please. The American Identity is always what it has been- it's what the people believe it is. Though we might have different interpretations, it doesn't change over time, and it never will. The consensus for the Identity's purpose will always remain- life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Even though I am of Mexican desent, being Mexican isn't what defines me. Even though I live in the US, I dont have to abide by anyone's tradition. My cultural identity is what
Each and every person around the world have a cultural identity, whether they are part of a major race or not. If a person were to look back at their family tree all the way to the roots, they will find that they were part of a diverse cultural group. Sometimes, family history can be lost or unknown due to lack of recorded documents. Even if I do not know much about my family history, it still says a lot about who I am. It is essential to know what our cultural heritage is so that people can understand themselves. Being the first child of my family and born in the United States, I still have a strong cultural influence on me since my parents came to the states a year before my birth. Since my parents immigrated to the United States, I am a first generation Vietnamese American who grew up with all the values and traditions I was raised with under the household.
What is culture? Culture is identity; it’s the indigenous or non-indigenous ideology, habits, customs, appearances and beliefs that people are either raised by or adapt to from different nations surrounding. It is a network of knowledge shared by a group of people. Culture consists of configurations, explicit and implicit, of and for behavior obtained and spread by symbols establishing the distinctive achievement of human groups including their embodiments in artifacts; the vital core of culture consists of traditional ideas and especially their attached values. Culture systems may, on one hand, be considered as products of action, and on the other, as conditioning influences upon further action.
My culture identity, as I know it as is African American. My culture can be seen in food, literature, religion, language, the community, family structure, the individual, music, dance, art, and could be summed up as the symbolic level. Symbolic, because faith plays a major role in our daily lives through song, prayer, praise and worship. When I’m happy I rely on my faith, same as when I’m sad, for I know things will get better as they have before.
Who am I; my beliefs, values, morals, and views on society have assisted in molding me into the person that I am considered to be today. I was raced with specifics values, traditions, and norms. Being raised in a small town made being socially aware very easy. I was raised under the southern Baptist Christian religion. Church was always the same and it had a majority of women in attendance although the men and elderly people ran the church overall. It was always the same, repetitive habits and events that occurred in my town but after a while I became accustomed to always being near or known by others.
Times are changing and I feel like I am forced to conform to the everyday social norms of America, which makes me feel impuissance. Racial identity, which refers to identifying with a social group with similar phenotypes and racial category, is the only experience that I have with life (Organista, 2010). Racial ethnicity was used to build my self-esteem and to keep me in the dark when it came to how society treats individuals of darker complexion. However, once I left the confines of my family and neighborhood, I was forced to befriend and interact with individuals that had different cultural values and beliefs than me. This experience caused me to learn how to appreciate other racial and ethnic groups and their cultural values and belief. This is an accurate definition, of acculturation because I was able to understand and fit in with individuals different from me, while maintaining my own culture and ethnic identity. Therefore, knowing the importance of my ancestry, while acculturating and developing my own identity was all used
The term “culture” refers to the complex accumulation of knowledge, folklore, language, rules, rituals, habits, lifestyles, attitudes, beliefs, and customs that link and provide a general identity to a group of people. Cultures take a long time to develop. There are many things that establish identity give meaning to life, define what one becomes, and how one should behave.