What Are Your Cultural Ethnic Identity Typological Model
1. What is/are your “social identity(ies)” (76)? What is/are your “cultural identity(ies)” (79)? What is/are your “ethnic identity(ies)” (79)?
Social identities:
- Cultural or ethnic membership identity: - Gender identity: female - Sexual orientation: heterosexual - Social class: middle class - Age: 22, early twenties - Professional identity: student, sales associate Cultural Identity: American
Ethnic Identity: Canadian/American
2. What are the key dimensions of the cultural-ethnic identity typological model (82)? Is this model helpful for describing your identity? Why or why not?
The key dimensions of the cultural-ethnic identity typological model are 1. Ethnic oriented identity: are those who identify strongly with ethnic traditions and vales and weakly with the values and norms of the dominant society. …show more content…
Assimilated identity: which consists of individuals who identify weakly with their ethnic traditions and values, while identifying strongly with the values and norms of the larger culture. 3. Bicultural identity: includes those who identify strongly with ethnic tradition maintenance, while at the same time incorporating values and practices of the larger society. 4. Marginal identity: are those who identify weakly with their ethnic traditions and also weakly with the larger society.
This model I think is helpful when it comes to describing my own identity in that I can see myself falling into the assimilated identity. Although I know about my ethnic background, and I do share some of its values and norms, for the most part I identify more strongly with the larger culture of America. I think this is mostly due to that fact that I have been born and raised in American, and my family isn't insistent upon bringing our ethnic background into our daily family life.
3. Each essay captures a unique experience. Each experience reflects a journey. What are some of the challenges in each
Social identities:
- Cultural or ethnic membership identity: - Gender identity: female - Sexual orientation: heterosexual - Social class: middle class - Age: 22, early twenties - Professional identity: student, sales associate Cultural Identity: American
Ethnic Identity: Canadian/American
2. What are the key dimensions of the cultural-ethnic identity typological model (82)? Is this model helpful for describing your identity? Why or why not?
The key dimensions of the cultural-ethnic identity typological model are 1. Ethnic oriented identity: are those who identify strongly with ethnic traditions and vales and weakly with the values and norms of the dominant society. …show more content…
Assimilated identity: which consists of individuals who identify weakly with their ethnic traditions and values, while identifying strongly with the values and norms of the larger culture. 3. Bicultural identity: includes those who identify strongly with ethnic tradition maintenance, while at the same time incorporating values and practices of the larger society. 4. Marginal identity: are those who identify weakly with their ethnic traditions and also weakly with the larger society.
This model I think is helpful when it comes to describing my own identity in that I can see myself falling into the assimilated identity. Although I know about my ethnic background, and I do share some of its values and norms, for the most part I identify more strongly with the larger culture of America. I think this is mostly due to that fact that I have been born and raised in American, and my family isn't insistent upon bringing our ethnic background into our daily family life.
3. Each essay captures a unique experience. Each experience reflects a journey. What are some of the challenges in each