Cultural identity to me is what I celebrate‚ the things I believe in‚ and the food I eat. What I believe in has a lot to do with who i am as a person. The celebrations I celebrate connect back to where my family came from. The food I eat during holidays and parties is a big part of me. I see myself as a strong independent chicana. Three elements of culture that define me would be languages‚ traditions‚ and art. Language is very important to me because it’s how I communicate with my family. It also
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Professional Identity I have long been interested in the experiences that shape us as individuals‚ and how the interactions we have with other people‚ communities‚ and systems affects how we view ourselves and the world in general. Social work allows me to spend my work hours engaging with other people with the aim of enhancing my clients’ well-being and empowering my clients to achieve positive change in their own lives and in their communities. As a former journalist and English Major‚ I had never
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sets you apart from everyone else because no one has been raised the same. My cultural identity reflects how I was brought up‚ the things I like‚ and how I choose to live my life. I am
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I come from a low-income‚ single parent‚ immigrant household. My life hasn’t been the easiest‚ but the challenges I faced growing up that most shaped who I am today weren’t from any external factors. They were within me. I am in a constant struggle of identity: humans‚ particularly insecure‚ neurotic‚ coming-of-age women like myself‚ are in a constant search for identification‚ an anchor that we hold on to validate our existence and legitimize any worries we have that we aren’t normal. It was difficult
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2. Discuss the effect that modernization has had on ethnic identification and ethnic conflict. The effect modernization has had on ethnic identification and ethnic conflict is not a great one. Early modernization theorists‚ who were quite optimistic about the positive effects of literacy‚ urbanization‚ and modern values‚ clearly underestimated the extent to which these factors might mobilize various ethnic groups and set them against each other (Handelman‚ 2011‚ p. 113). Modernization challenged
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Until today‚ I never put much thought into my culture identity‚ I had always thought that I was Mexican and that was it‚ there is nothing more to it. My parents who are fully Mexican have always taught me that my culture is very important. They always told me that‚ my culture is one of the things that make me stand out from the rest. I never saw it as something important‚ because I thought culture was just your race and nothing more. I only ever thought that I was a girl who came from a Mexican background
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Ethnic Conflicts are a very important issue that can affect a whole country/state. Ethnic conflicts within a state belong to identity conflicts that are a type of internal conflicts. Sometimes the term ethnic conflict is used to describe a large range of internal conflicts .Before talking about ethnic conflict‚ it is important to know the meaning of ethnicity. . Ethnic groups usually have collectivity or psychological communities who share a combination of historical experience and valued cultural
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urban areas are a major source of ethnic stores selling to different ethnic groups from different parts of the world. Attentiveness and testing of ethnic foods have increased over the past decades as a consequence of growing international trade‚ migration‚
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Ethnic Group ( Java Banyumasan : Orang Jawa of Malaysia ) In this essay‚ I write about ethnic group and why we cannot define an ethnic group by their cultural elements such as language‚ religion‚ customs and so on. I write this essay because there is a question about why we cannot define an ethnic group by their culture‚ whereas culture are one elements of an ethnic. There is problem of seeing ethnic groups as cultural groups; “the mere fact that two groups of people are of different culture does
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of discrimination people are blind to the fact that we are all human beings and have feelings and everyone should be treated the same regardless of race‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ oreientation‚ disability etc. • How is discrimination faced by one identity group (race‚ ethnicity‚ religious beliefs‚ gender‚ sexual orientation‚ age‚ or disability) the same as discrimination faced by another? How are they different? I would agree that sexual orientation and gender face similar discrimination if you
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