Cultural Identity And Culture

Why is cultural identity important to us as people from different race and ethnical background? Identity is one of the most baffling, unpredictable, problematic, survival instincts of individual life in any society around the world. CulturalIdentity is that is aspect of individual that creates a distinguish characteristics and unique differences from one person to another. It can be looked upon in the different angles and spectrum depending on what the case may be. Identity can be analyzed in terms of way of life of people in a geographical setting.Culture is the back born of every identity, and then we can look into some subcultures like, music, language, and communication and perception.
First the question will be what is culture? Culture

Many will ask what role does identity and culture play in the society? As a matter of fact, culture is that one factor that speaks to us about our origin. According to Lahiri “For my parent, home was not our house at Rhode Island, but Calcutta, where they were raised. I was aware that the things they lived for, the Nazrul songs they listened to on the real to real, the family they missed, the cloths my mother wore that were not available in any store in any mall” (pg 612). On this quote, Lahiri tries to explain the way of living her parents left behind before moving to America in search for better lives, her parents found themselves in a strange new environment that necessarily doesn’t collaborate with their past cultural values, but they coped with it and the sense of origin from which they were raised still follows

Other people’scultures are as important as ourown culture so it is crucial we respect it. Being an American does not give any one the right to travel to other country and violate their tradition, values and believe, or other people coming to America to violate their system. We as individual have to acknowledge the fact that there were people residing there before our arrival so it is mandatory we obey their rules. “At home I follow the customs of my parents, speaking Bengali and eating rice and dal with my fingers” (Lahiri 612). Lahiri attempt to explain that that when she is at home with her parents, she has the obligation to respect the parents culture and way of doing things rather than doing things her own way or the way she