Being Vietnamese-American, my sense of cultural identity greatly differs from many individuals. Since America is one great, giant mixing pot of many diverse cultures, I was exposed to a multitude of different cultural perspectives growing up. With my Vietnamese background and American upbringing influencing who I am today, it shapes my own unique cultural identity as well. It’s rare, if not completely impossible, to find a person who has the same exact cultural identity as you. And because my parents were raised in Vietnam while I was raised here in Oahu, our cultural perspectives aren’t very similar even though we’re closely related.
As a person goes through life he or she may wonder “Who am I?” and “What is my purpose?” The objective of this paper is to allow me to reflect and critically analyze who I am as a person. In this paper, I will discuss my social location and identity, my life experiences and my privileges and disadvantages.
Lam and his mother are already associated with two different cultures. Lam is Vietnamese but has been living in America for almost his whole life and his mother has spent most of her time in Vietnam. I feel like identity in Vietnam takes their culture more serious and they show appreciation to their society. They are very strict and they stick to their cultural beliefs. On the other hand, Americans are given more freedom, our society is more reclined.
I am a native American. Anyone born and raised here is. Your statement of 'kicking all Americans out' holds no merit. The European colonizers conquered this land, that later turned the United States. Good or bad, that was how things worked back then when countries and empires set out to explore new land regions, which many were ended up being vanquished.
As an Indian-Americans, I grew up with two very different cultures influencing me in to distinct worlds: my home life and my school life. It wasn’t until I became a freshman a few years ago that these two cultures fused into one. I used to think using my mother tongue in public was weird, and that I had to be just like my Caucasian friends to be “cool”. As an early teen, I never acknowledged my own religion, culture, and ethnicity; sometimes I disgraced them. But, as I matured, I realized that my religion, culture, and ethnicity is a gift.
Throughout my life I have come from and created a few identities for myself. Perhaps, the most dominant identities that have been apart of my life are being an athlete and being a family orientated man. In this paper I will write about how my identities have shaped my life. First off I believe my biggest identity is being an athlete.
I am not mixed with any other race. I am all African- American. My mother, Donna Kent, is 46 years old. My mother is the second eldest of three. Donna was born on October 1st.
This is about a culture I was born into and raise by my parents.it is discipline culture made me who I am today being a Somalian American. It was easy at first, but my unique name ask people question like what are you so I just tell them I am Somali American. I was lucky I was born not there when the violence all that started to really happen. It’s getting better I visits there when I was young it was nice peaceful when I visited there.
In terms of social identities, I was born in a middle class Vietnamese family where my parents have worked so hard to provide the best education and living standards for my two other siblings and me. My parents also have taught me to appreciate
For me, my racial and cultural identity has always been at the forefront of my life experience. I grew up in an Iowan rural small town that was founded on Swedish heritage. My home town of Albert City, Iowa was founded by my Swedish ancestors, many of which still have family there today. Therefore, I have always known that my Swedish blood was an important aspect of my life. However, I am also of German, Norwegian, and Danish heritage which has conflicted my views of my identity.
Throughout my day to day life, my cultural identity shifts between two nationalities: American and Peruvian. Because of the melting pot that New York City is, it is extremely common and normal to come across a person that shifts between cultural identities. Just as I ride the train to school, I hear people speaking in Spanglish and enjoying shows on their phone in their native language. As far as I know, I subconsciously shift between my cultural idenities based on where I am and who I am speaking to. As I wake up in my apartment, I hear reggaeton playing in the apartment above me and my grandmother in the hallway complaining in Spanish about rowdy people.
The background of my cultural identity I am an African American female but that isn’t all there is to know me for. I am an African American girl who is very interactive with my religion and also my culture. Cultural identity can be hard to explain because some people don’t know what’s really in their culture and they fail to see , and understand it. I know what my cultural identity is because of my ethiopian flag, the baked macaroni, and the movie the lion king.
Growing up in America as a Chinese immigrant, I was puzzled about my identity for quite some time. Was I Chinese, Chinese American, or a Chinese in America? Never had I thought the arrangements between two or three words can be so controversial and disconcert. My life was an empty canvas, depressed and uncommitted. It was tough to not have the same type of name as most of my peers, it was tough to learn English, and it was tough to live with an absence of a true identity.
The world is filled with people, and like snowflakes, each person is not the same as another. Each person identifies with different aspects of their lives to create their own personal identities. I personally identify with my Italian side of my family to help form who I am today. I have found myself connecting with this side more so than the other parts of my identity. It affects how I live my life by becoming the center to the culture surrounding me.
My parents always pester me and say, “We are not American, we are Vietnamese.” This has always been a strange concept to me since I consider myself both American and Vietnamese. I am involved in two cultures, Vietnamese-American culture. Vietnamese and American cultures are different, however they share similarities. Vietnamese culture components are music, work ethic and emotional intimacy.
My cultural identity changes everyday sometimes because I learn knew things so how I feel about something may change another day. Some of the things that make up my culture identity are music, religion, and age. Music can be played from nearly anything in 2016, record players, TVS, computers, phones, played live, etc. Music not only helps me get out of a bad mood, it helps me become happy and relaxed. Growing up I was exposed to all types of music which helped me have an open mind for any type.