A Sense Of Identity, And Cultural Identity

One’s identity is the personality or the characteristics that distinguish them from other people. Giving them a humanistic view, a sense of freedom, beauty, creativity, and moral responsibility. whereas, one’s cultural identity is more about where someone comes from their background, the language they speak, their religion, what they eat, what they wear, and how they carry themselves giving them a sense of belonging and is part of one’s self-conception and perception. Cultural identity is usually passed down from generation to generations and thus distinguishing one culture from another.

I believe that someone can be a member of more than one culture for the sample fact that we are adaptive beings and as we observe and learn more we pick up things that make sense to us and things that we prefer than others. Based on the definition given in chapter one I would not think that one can belong to more than one culture because if one is not introduced to new things or ideas or ways of living they would not be willing to change what is already a norm to them and just go with the things and ideas that was bestowed on them by people. I belong to the Haitian cultures and American culture. The things I ate growing up, the clothes I wore, the way I was raised altogether is different from Americans, and since I’ve been going to school and living on my own and hanging out with my American friends I have changed a lot of things and pick up things that I rather do then what I was growing up