Sense Of Belonging

Discuss the statement. “Where you live defines your sense of Belonging”
The statement, “Where you live defines your sense of Belonging” implies that the location and setting in which you live, defines your sense of belonging. This is not wrong in saying this, but it is not the only aspect to belonging. The ideas of belonging, or of not belonging, vary. They are shaped within personal, cultural, historical and social contexts. A sense of belonging can develop from the connections made with people, places, groups, communities and the larger world. Experiences and notions of identity, relationships, acceptance and understanding can also play huge roles in whether a person belongs or does not belong. Your sense of belonging is defined by the
Being separated from his heritage, the writer experiences a guilty feeling about not understanding his parents’ culture. There also a sense that this issue will have to be resolved, even if doing so may involve some pain and chaos. The use of active voices in the poem shows that there are no unmotivated voice verbs at all and shows the need to do something about the problem of not belonging. The poem uses dreamscape and shows that the landscape of Skrzynecki’s dream is arid and barren, symbolic of his sense of cultural isolation and of not belonging. The landscape he creates is rich in sensory descriptions: ‘grasses and sand’; ‘mud’. Dreaming allows peter to reflect on where he has come from in his search for a sense of belonging. His dream is a metaphor for his reflections which focus on identity and how his family’s immigration has interfered with significant identity-forming communications: ‘Who are these shadows/That hang over you in a dream?’ “The eyes never close” shows that the moment is frozen and may be a sign that he is in a dream partly based on looking at such photos. A curious tone also carries on throughout the poem. This questioning is about his identity though his research of the past which is represented by the ancestors, creating a sense an image and search on his relationship to them. The reader can
However, in Australia, Sarah Ashley has successfully understood and accepted the Aboriginal culture so that finally she is truly able to belong to the society, which is different from most of the white people who live in the country, who just physically belong to this place but do not spiritually belong to this environment. The sense of belonging is shown in the final scene of the movie when Sarah Ashley finally lets the Aboriginal boy go back to his grandfather and his roots. This is an acceptance of a culture, which is a way to belong to a new culture. Learning about the experience of Peter Skrzynecki as a migrant to Australia through his poems and the experience of Sarah Ashley in the movie Australia, we can see that there are a number of important elements flowing around the idea of belonging -- identity, acceptance, relationship and