Essay On Cultural Identity

My cultural ancestry comes from a Cuban and Mexican decent. I have chosen to write about my Cuban side because I can relate to them more than I could with my Mexican side. I was raised around my Cuban family and would occasionally see my Mexican side due to them living so far away. I have spent a lot more time associating with Cubans and have adapted to more of their habits.

Leininger (1988) defined nursing as a transcultural phenomenon requiring knowledge of different cultures to provide care that is congruent with the clients’ life ways, social structure, and environmental context. This definition from the founder of transcultural care would support applying a cultural sensitive nursing care in the clinical setting, and highly linked to her definition of transcultural nursing as a legitimate and formal area of study focused on culturally based care beliefs, values, and practices to help cultures or subcultures maintain or regain their health (wellbeing) and face disabilities or death in culturally congruent and beneficial caring ways (Leininger, 1970, 1978, 1995). Moreover Leininger summarized the process of applying transcultural care as providing care that fits with cultural beliefs and life ways. From a professional perspective, it refers to the use of emic (local cultural knowledge and life ways) in meaningful and tailored ways that fit with etic (largely professional outsiders’ knowledge), in other words care should be individualized according to patient’s culture to promote holistic and effective nursing care.

What is my cultural identity? Personally, I don’t think I am completely assured on what my cultural identity is, but I can do my best on explaining it. However, I won’t get started on that yet, first I’ll explain the occasion of me learning about my identity. At almost the beginning of the year, it was announced in our English class that we would be doing an essay on our cultural identities. When my teacher announced this I thought to myself, “What in the world is a cultural identity, or even my cultural identity?” In these months, we have gotten to learn the definition of culture, and what it means to us, individually., I believe that culture means a group of people that share the same customs, way of life, and beliefs. Also, over these last couple of months we have been reading texts all about people knowing and understanding their cultural identities, meanwhile I still didn’t understand my own. All I know is that I was born on February 11, 2002, I like movies and music, and my mom is from Chile and my Dad is from Virginia. Now that didn’t feel like enough for me to write on, but then I started thinking about all of the cultural differences that my parents have had raising me as a person, and how those have all combined to make me. In my short 15 years of life, the culture clashes have sometimes affected me on my thoughts and opinions, which I’ll talk about later on. As well as how movies and music have affected my perspectives and opinions.

Latina, Hispanic,Chicana,Mexican all words that identify my cultural identity and today I am proud of identifying myself through all of those figures but about two years ago I was embarrassed to identify myself as one of those figures

There is a Mexican man that enters with the rest of his family. They eat beans, rice, flour tortillas and etc. The family does there every day routine, the dad wakes up at six- thirty to go to work in his truck. The children go to school and the mother stays at home. The things a person does in their all has a reason which goes all back to culture. Culture is what makes up everyone different from one another. Texts such as “What is Cultural Identity?”, “Where Worlds Collide” and “Two ways to Belong” supports that depending on one’s culture it effects one perspective on the world and others.

In growing up in the position of the ‘other’ in society, Smith provides an empowered stance of identity exclusively through the demonstration of cultural hybridity, as evidenced by Millat and his gangster crew, the Raggastani’s. As Millat becomes increasingly connected to a swaggering identity highlighted by Western popular culture, his sense of belonging becomes established with the multicultural mix of South Asian and Caribbean teens he hangs out with: “It was a new breed, just recently joining the ranks of the other street crews. Becks, B-boys, Nation Brothers, Raggas, and Pakis; manifesting itself as a kind of cultural mongrel of the last three categories. Their ethos, their manifesto, if it could be called that, was equally a hybrid thing” (193). Here, Smith uses the Raggastani’s as a symbol representing the emerging identity of a multicultural London transformed by the migration of formerly colonized populations from South Asia and the Caribbean. Their mission, to put the “invincible back in Indian, the Bad-aaaass back in Bengali, the P-Funk back in Pakistani” (193), is about taking their identities which have been devalued in Western society and linking them together through a collective sense of approval. As a productive example of cultural hybridity taking place, they are a direct contrast with the forms of difference and racial purity that the Chalfen`s represent, and the resistance of letting go of traditions that their parents uphold. The group tries on a series

My culture identity, as I know it as is African American. My culture can be seen in food, literature, religion, language, the community, family structure, the individual, music, dance, art, and could be summed up as the symbolic level. Symbolic, because faith plays a major role in our daily lives through song, prayer, praise and worship. When I’m happy I rely on my faith, same as when I’m sad, for I know things will get better as they have before.

The following paper will discuss two of the major dimensions of my cultural identity, and analyze the way in which my identity holds privileges, or has exposed me to oppression. Being that I am white, I have lived a life of privilege simply because of the color of my skin. I have been afforded opportunities, and lived a life free from persecution due to my skin color. I have also lived a life that has been impacted by oppression because of my female identity. This unique position between privilege and oppression is where I live my life.

Culture Identity is the things that describe who you are as a person. The food you eat, the clothes you wear, the music you listen to, the language you speak, and your age. The type of culture identity that I have is what I eat being that I’m from Louisiana, me being black influences the clothes that I wear, my age affects how I react to things and how I treat others. Being from Louisiana or the United States my language is English, the music that I listen to is also apart of my culture that really shows apart of me.

The purpose of this essay is to critically reflect on the new ideas I have learnt throughout this semester, ideas that has changed the way I understand the experiences of the Aboriginal and Torres strait islander people. The essay will also link my understanding of how cultural identity can influence health equity, using the CATSINaM’s definition of cultural safety.

Across the world, people have differing views on actions based on their cultural roots. One’s culture greatly impacts their perception of the world and contributes to a variety of beliefs including values, assumptions, and interests. These traits are displayed within the short story “By Any Other Name” and the interview titled “Multiculturalism Explained in One Word: HAPA” through the experiences and external conflicts described by the authors.

Many people hear the word culture and the first aspect that comes to mind is where they are from; I don’t look at culture the same way. I hear the word culture and I think of traditions, beliefs, morals, and things we value in my family. All of these points are just different aspects of culture that people may not always think about. Even though major parts of my culture may clash at times, being academically driven, being focused on sports, and being family oriented are all aspects that are important to me and my cultural identity.

How do we get are cultural identity? There are many ways that make us who we are, from are decisions that we make in life to, whom you have in your life, which can be family, friends, or even strangers that can impact are life. Everyone has their own culture, traditions, and customs which makes us who we are in are Cultural Identity. It all depends on what we do, who we hang out with or, where are background comes from. Culture means to me a variety of different people from different places that celebrate traditions and customs from their culture.

Cultural Identity is the aspects of someone’s life with self-conception of belonging to different groups. Meaning that we all are apart of different cultures, which plays a role in our everyday life. The groups I feel belonged to are sports, fashion and food.

Cultural Identity is something that should be important to everyone because it is something that we can all connect to. Interracial marriages are climaxing which in result brings in multiracial children into the world. Multiracial children are relationships have grown out of proportion due to the United States being multicultural.Having to be part of a biracial family and being related to someone biracial has opened up many windows for exploration and educational discovery as to why and how mixed race influences the identity and thinking process of a child. Learning how mixed race influences the identity of a child will open up a lot of new studies and discoveries. Being biracial is something a lit of children have to deal with and knowing how it affects their identity and thinking process will allow us to help them accept that they are different and it is okay to be different. Being able to understand how mixed race influences a child will open up many people's eyes and provide insight into how we can help if it is needed to find their identity.