Does Cultural Identity A Result Of Lived Experience?

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Is Cultural Identity a Result of Lived Experience? Coming to the United States was a big change for me, having to learn a new language and a new way of living. I didn’t realize that I have an accent when I speak English until people started asking, “Where is that accent from?”. The experience of coming to a different country made me realize I was different. Therefore, experiencing things is what makes you acknowledge who you are. Cultural identity is your surroundings, beliefs, and experiences. Furthermore, what you do and believe is cultural identity. On the other side, there’s invisible culture where our culture is invisible to us because we see that other cultures are different to ours, but we don’t see that ours is different to others.

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