Examine Your Own Cultural Identity

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1). Examine your own cultural heritage
According on Hall's book Cultural identity has three components. A personal represents how an individual interprets his / her cultural identity based on his own experience. "Personal identity refers to our perception of ourselves and others as unique, idiosyncratic individuals, distinct from all others"(Hall, 2018, pg.104) Relational type refers to how individuals interact with each other (what is appropriate behavior) and common relational identities within a community are often discussed as related roles, such as student/teacher, boss/employee, parent/child, customer/salesman, and communal identity is the use of communication in the generation, identification, and negotiation of shared identities. …show more content…

Unlike their first-generation parents and second-generation children born in the United States, 1.5ers have been socialized in both Korean and American cultures and express the cultural values and beliefs of each. My life in U.S with 1.5 generation status is Pretty challenging; Learn new languages and cultures, develop and accept new identities from language schools and ethnic / minority groups, experience constant social distance and isolation from the mainstream student population. overcome frustration with linguistic and academic challenges; Social involvement has been added to the difficulties experienced at school and to all the anxieties added to new immigrant life. And this personal experience can explain well about heritage of personal …show more content…

Based on my 1.5 generation experience I have suffers from an identity crisis between Korea my mother land, U.S my spiritual place to make current "who I am". I later went to a college in Washington and met many Korean students who migrated at similar times as I did. When we talked about our experience in high school, we found that we share many similar experiences. The exact details of our experience vary, but I realized that some of the struggles I've been dealing with are not my problem. First of all, sometimes we have problem with make friendship with Korean international student because of different culture. Even I can speaking Korean fluently, I realized that I was not the only one who felt the deep sense of make friendship with other students from Korea. This feeling of isolation actually continued even in college where meeting new friends was harder than in high schools. Secondly, problem with U.S is I felt I was very inadequate and incompetent about English. Throughout high school, English was a major source of stress and attention, but after I entered college, I realized more clearly that I was not well prepared to take college-level courses in limited English. I felt I was very inadequate and incompetent about English. Throughout high school, English was a major source of stress and attention, but after I entered college, I realized more clearly that I was not well prepared to take college-level

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