Model Of Identity Development

1) The model for majority identity development consists of 4 stages. The first stage is Unexamined Identity. In this stage identity is not a concern. Individuals may be aware of cultural and physical differences, but there is no sense of superiority. At this first stage, communication is not based on racial differences. The second stage is Acceptance, in which the basic racial inequalities are accepted. The third stage is Resistance. At this stage, individuals of the dominant culture become more aware of the social inequities and they begin to question their own culture by blaming the social system for the racial problems instead of the minority members and by increasing their association with minority culture members. The last stage is Redefinition

In order to accepted by the dominant group, people that use this strategies are willing to be isolated from their own culture and to sacrifice their authenticity to have a position in the dominant group. Secondly, accommodation strategies use language to blend with the dominant group but also to educate the dominant group about the co-cultural issues that they face. This strategy focuses on being part of the dominant group in order to make changes from within. Finally, separation strategies uses language to avoid interaction with the dominant group. This strategy focuses on promoting co-cultural unity, but people that use this strategy is against the assimilation and accommodation strategies, which can lead to conflicts between minorities.

8) Translation is the process of producing a written text that refers to something said or written in another language, while interpretation refers to the process of verbally expressing what is said or written in another language. A translator would be more effective than an interpreter when translating a book written in Hebrew to English. An interpreter would be more effective when verbally interpreting a conversation between two presidents. A bilingual person differs from a multilingual person in the way that someone bilingual speaks two languages and people that speak more than two languages are

The environment which we call home and our neighborhood are cultural spaces. Our identities are strongly influenced by the cultural spaces in our lives. Our home is the immediate cultural context for our upbringing. It is variously defined as specific addresses, cities, states, regions, and even nations. Home can be a place of safety and security and we tend to identify ourselves with it regardless of what we wished it was. Neighborhood is a living area defined by its own cultural identity, especially an ethnic or racial one. Home is a very important factor of my identity. I grew up in the same city and when I was 13 I moves to the U.S. Although my home was not in Mexico anymore because I was living here, I still considered it my only home. For me, home is not a structure in which you sleep and eat, but it is a concept. Now when I think of home I think of both Mexico and here because now both cultural places have a meaning to