My Personalspective: The Influence Of Cultural And Family Perspective

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Cultural and family influences around me have certainly affected the actions as to which I would take upon myself in regards to different situations and have also influenced my personality in ways that are sometimes unexplainable. As a first generation Asian-American raised in a Chinese-Vietnamese household, it was very common within certain circumstances that I would be taught something vastly different from what my friends and classmates were taught. My parents had arrived in Hawaii after escaping the Vietnam War and were able to start up a new life in America, at which they taught each child the values that our culture and custom holds and the values for which they had grew up upon. Coming from and realizing that being raised this way was quite different from what was considered normal in the United States, it helped to show me personally that my personality is quite widely affected by how I was raised in my family and how following cultural traditions affected my point of views and actions. The behavior in which I was taught to respect my elders …show more content…

The journal article helped to show me the foundation of Chinese psychology and help explain to me that my culture beliefs and values most likely affected how my personality came to be. This article also gave me a better understanding of the different outlooks on human nature and made me even more interested in how my personality came to be. The lecture/textbook is a relatable to my life experience as the lecture gave me questions to ask myself why trying to find out more about my personality and the textbook showed me the different theories upon which personality was formed. Being able to now analyze and understand my personality more in-depth is due to the information provided in lecture and the

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