Constructing My Cultural Identity: A Reflection on the Contradictions‚ Dilemmas‚ and Reality This article provides a critical reflective analysis of my life growing up in Jamaica where I attended colonial school‚ to making the transition to high school in the Canadian context. I examine the elements that have influenced my cultural/racial identity as a person of African ancestry living in the diaspora. I ask questions such as how has colonial education influenced my cultural identity and how I
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born as an American citizens and am yet able to identify myself as a member of family heritage culture and heritage. Cultural Influences on Personal Identity Development Raised in a Caribbean cultured home where Christianity was our core belief‚ from an early age‚ I was taught the importance of reverencing God and honoring and respecting my parents. Likewise‚ my parents instilled in me the importance of obtaining a good education as they demonstrated the bountifulness of hard work and achievement.
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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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of personal identity. Since we do not look or act the same as we did when we were a child‚ can it be possible we are not the same person? Many philosophers ponder this problem of who we are and if are in fact an entire new person from our ten-year-old self. For instance‚ if you look at a photo of yourself from when you were a kid‚ there are many physical differences. The theories of personal identity try to explain how despite the differences‚ you
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Learning and Identity January 4‚ 2011 Malcolm x‚ self-educated his self in prison‚ and gained self confidence in reading and writing. I see myself in the same position. My whole life I felt I was in prison in the labor work force. `I am attempting to self educate myself at the college of New Rochelle. In an attempt to get a degree‚ so I can improve my finical situation. I am my biggest mentor at this point in my life‚ and you (Professor Quinn) seem to have a great influence on my education. Your
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their own unique identity that does not connect with someone else’s‚ whether it be culturally‚ religiously‚ ethnically‚ sexually‚ or any type of background. My parents’ identities are incomprehensible to me‚ because I do not experience life the same way they did‚ and I did not grow up in the same situations in which they did. My cultural identity is inherited from my parents in a way that does not particularly connect with them--that is‚ it is inherited from their sense of self identity and capability
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Many people might think that your culture identity is where your parents come from‚ but in my opinion cultural identity it really just is the feeling of belonging to a group or community.Culture can be how someone sees him/herself‚ which is related to one?s religion‚ or their background. In the next I will be talking about three elements of my culture that define who I am. First‚ culture defines me in many ways‚ but the three elements of culture that I will be talking about are ‚ language
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believe in and things we do in my family one of the things that makes up my culture is soccer and family. When you told us that we have to write about our cultural identity and talk about things that make us up‚ I was thinking what I am going to be talking about. I took some time and thought what makes me up and I realized the things that make me up are School‚ Soccer‚ and Family. I am going to be talking about how music and soccer and family all make my cultural identity and make up who I am. One
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number of different identities either genetically or through my upbringing that have come to shape the person that I am today. Obviously embodying what is generally idealized as the norm‚ my social identity can be described‚ and has been described in many cases‚ as several things including American or “white-boy.” Through many of the things I have experienced coming from a privileged and fairly easy upbringing‚ I would say that I am proud to associate myself with these identities‚ as it has made me
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My cultural identity is important to me because it represents who I am as a whole. The things that I enjoy are a part of my cultural identity. My culture helps me know where I belong. My cultural identity is American because my family and I have lived here for generations which is illustrated by the movies‚ sports‚ and foods we are interested in. Basketball represents my culture and me. My basketball is blue and white‚ a size 28.5‚ and is the Wilson Brand. The ball isn’t brand new and has been
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