Encountering My Cultural Identity:. I Have Experienced

and Racial Identity Multicultural education is the key to incorporating ethnic and racial identities in the classroom. I believe implementing a culturally responsive curriculum would work best for the students. I would like to be a future educator who acknowledges and welcome my students’ diversity in the classroom. It is important to bring cultural awareness to the classroom and school environment. I want my students to know that I respect, acknowledge and care about their differences. I would model

born to a “colored” mother and white father. This combination of his identity led him to encounter many internal and external challenges. Physically he appeared white, so he experienced being able to “pass” as both “colored” or white whenever he wished. Being able do such a thing, the narrator struggled with racial boundaries. He embodied almost every permutation, intentional or unintentional, of the experience when encountering various racial (white and “colored”) communities, eventually deciding

As I have lived most all of my life here in NYC, I have been affected by implicit biases, prejudices and discrimination based on my race, however my socioeconomic class, gender and my sexual orientation are significant forces of my social identity that not only define who I am, but are interconnected in the way I am and have been oppressed. Albeit racism has an impact on all of our lives in the US, however; it’s the intersectionality of the other social identity forces that when they are interacting

culture of my heritage. This has caused me consternation, as my culture and ethnic identity is important to me. My experience with my relatives reflect ambivalence to the many situations Hawaii people face. As a personal exemplar, my grandma, who is fully Hawaiian, becomes visibly upset and angry when she recounts her life experiences. This to me represents a culture identity conflict due to intrusion of Western Culture. For the modern generation Polynesians, specifically Hawaiians, they have appeared

the word brick in multiple languages and referring to it as an “insane dream of grandeur of our masters” (p.79). These biblical references suggest the importance of religion, and are and indication of the importance of Levi’s Italian culture and identity, as he referred to himself ‘an Italian citizen of Jewish race.’

Microaggressions have been a relevant issue for minorities spanning decades. However, this problem has proven to be significantly more prevalent in the lives of today’s black community. Recently, I have become progressively more concerned about modern racial issues,such as the topic of microaggressions, that we face as a society because of the detrimental consequences I believe ignorance of the subject can have. Consequently, I felt that I should concentrate on utilizing metacognition in order to

to the ‘White Australian’ assimilation policies that were passed in motion by the federal government from 1909-1969 (Young, 2009). A psychological trauma that I could not imagine going through by having a higher authority to remove me or any of my siblings away from my parents at such an early stage in life would leave not only myself but my whole family in distraught and feelings of emptiness due to the fact our parents were emancipated from us without our consent. Even though the government has

background of this reciprocal immigration waves. In spite of the idea of creating ethnic commonness, immigrated populations in many ways bear distinct social-cultural characteristics from local cultures. This created in historically and spatially specific contests and struggles during settlement periods; had great effects on pre-existing social, cultural and economic environments of sending and receiving localities (Keyder, 1994). Gender relations were not out of these metamorphoses;

The African-American community has endured a notable amount of troublesome tribulations, primarily in cultural identity. The wide array of challenges that minorities undergo when classifying a specific race is illogical, and rather insane. The struggle, hassle, and strain placed on minorities for embracing their identity will continuously be stereotyped or judged by a non-oppressed individual, or better yet our modern society. The ongoing list of imperfections a minority is labeled with when classifying

competent nurse, I believe that I should strive to be well-rounded in a variety of aspects. My experiences as a former outpatient, a nursing assistant trainee, and being part of a patient’s family make up the foundation of my personal nursing philosophy. Furthermore, I am aware that self-care, empathy, culture, communication, advocacy and education are some of the most significant factors that all individuals should be informed of before choosing a career path in the health care setting. I will also take