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.
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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
I remember glaring at my mom when she spoke Korean in public, telling her to be quiet. I remember avoiding talking about my culture, because I was ashamed. These simple remarks from children who were not taught to accept others’ differences truly affected my pride and identity. My parents would always tell me, “You should be proud of being Korean!” Despite this, I felt disrespected, downgraded, and discouraged.
I classify my race, ethnicity, and culture as a white, Irish-Italian- American, woman. My mother was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and my paternal grandparents are from Sicily, Italy. I imagine being first generation Irish and second generation Italian helps me relate with my ethnicity.
I definitely identify most with modern American culture. Although I am half Hispanic and half white, I was raised more “white” than Hispanic (e.g. food, language, holidays, music, etc.). On the surface you can see a white American, English speaking, femininely dressed young lady, but I am much more than what is on the outside. Like I stated earlier I was raised more “white”, but I still identify a little with my Hispanic culture. In this paper I will be addressing 10 surface and 10 deep aspects of my cultural identity.
When we think about our identity we often think about the way we look. Such features as hair color, eye color, skin tone, height and weight come to mind. Whilst these features are part of our identity, there are many more complex factors that make us who we are. Whilst psychological issues are paramount to the formation of our identity, I will be addressing the nature of our identity in relation to socio-cultural factors (Austin, 2002, p.9). During the course of this essay I will be discussing the term of Identity and some of the axes of identity, including Race, Class and Gender. It is important to understand some of the significant issues of identity so that we have more of an understanding of who and what we are, which in turn may help us to begin to better understand others.
Barbara Ehrenreich’s essay “Cultural Baggage,” Which appears in The Norton Mix, discusses the challenges Ehrenreich faces in trying to identify with an ethnic culture. She uses multiple real life examples, mostly including her kinfolk, to explain her reasoning for not restricting herself to a one ethnicity. Ehrenreich’s logic makes sense because she grows up with no sense of ethnic identity, her mindset is non-traditional and she is willing to accept the idea that ethnicity is not a critical part of who a person really is.
Children living in two different cultures may find it very difficult by trying to please their parents at home while trying the please the outside world as well. Children living in two different cultures have problems finding their roots or have no sense of where do they really belong. Some children struggle to find a sense of belonging where usually they might find some people asking them where they come from, and this question make some of them really frustrated. These children sometimes can’t understand who they really are. It seems like they are doubled or playing a two faces game. Sun-Kyung Yi, in “An Immigrant’s Split Personality” said that after 16 years living in Canada, she finally discovered that it is difficult to be both Korean and Canadian depending who she is with. Furthermore, Sun-Kyung sais that she was known as Angela to the outside world but Sun-Kyung at home (Yi, 1992). Another big challenge that children may face is when they are trying to integrate themselves in a new culture. It is understandable that some children are able to integrate themselves quicker than others depending on the inequality between home and the outside cultures are. For instance, immigrant children are usually unable to fit in when they are with friends. They dress differently, their foods choices are different, and usually they listen to their own cultured musics than they do
As a living human being we are in a constant state of flux, life events constantly change us. From the smallest thing like a flat tire on the way to work on a raining Monday morning or a compliment a kind person gave you last year that still rings in your ear, all these events change you and shape you. Catherine Latterell points to assumptions about identity and how it is created in her book titled “Remix”, assumptions about identity and how it is created. The three assumptions being: identity is something we are born with, identity is shaped by culture and identity is shaped by personal choices. The assumption that environment has a role in who we are and who we become, as well as what we are born with or without – including our culture, all play a part in bringing together the mosaic of a whole person. Yet it is never fully complete, for it is always reshaping and growing. Mrigaa Sethi discusses these issues in
“Children begin to develop a sense of identity as individuals and as members of groups from their earliest interactions with others” (Trumbull and Pacheco 9). People start to develop their cultural identities as a young child, unknowingly, by their interactions with other people. Though, what is a person’s cultural identity? According to one source, cultural identity can be described as “one of the most basic type of identity is ethnic identity, which entails an awareness of one’s membership in a social group that has a common culture” (Trumbull and Pacheco 9). Considering this definition, I see now that my cultural identity can be best represented by my language because I can speak both English and Spanish and I use both languages on a daily
Since the birth of America many cultures came to find freedom and opportunity to accomplish the American Dream. The American Dream is the idea that anyone who comes to America possesses the opportunity to succeed based on their merit. Through this different cultures diffused what America came to be. The influences of immigrant cultures gave America the name the land of the free. Cultural diffusion, migration, immigration, and transnationalism is important in relation to global economy based on the fact that through these countries we are granted many ideas, styles, religions, technologies, and languages from these different cultures. America became a melting pot of various cultures bringing their individuality in a country of many customs. The struggle between culture and identity is conveyed through the writings of Richard Rodriquez and Armstrong Williams to break stereotypes and be proud of who you are. People need to identify with their own culture first before identifying with America because a key American value is individualism and maintaining one’s own culture. America is a melting pot of different cultures making it necessary to remember one’s own culture in the flood of ideas and traditions within America. Through maintaining culture they are simultaneously upholding American beliefs and identifying with America.
My parents come from China, my mom grew up in Taisan and my dad grew up in Guangdong. Around age twenty, they migrated to San Francisco, California where they met and later got married. A few years later they had my older brother and then me with a seven year age gap. I lived there for about 9 years, then we had moved to Bottineau, North Dakota for a year and after that we moved and have been living in Ohio since then. We’ve prevailed a huge transition from moving to the suburbs from a big city. With my first language being Chinese, because my parents only spoke Chinese, I had to learn English through school. Also the large population of Asians in the area of San Francisco that we lived in spoke little to no English,
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thesis: The War on Drugs, the rise of gangs in Los Angeles, and incidents of police brutality all had a significant impact on social dynamics and prolonged structural injustices. Well-known songs like “Changes” by Tupac Shakur and “Living for the City” by Stevie Wonder highlight these hardships and the perseverance required to overcome hardships, calling for group action in the direction of justice and equality. In the 1970s, New York City was an economic wasteland plagued with limited economic opportunities, wage gaps, and systemic issues like redlining, which have compounded over time, perpetuating a cycle of poverty. New York City was riddled with severe economic and political troubles, unlike what the city’s inhabitants had experienced