Jeremy Lin Acquisition Of Cultural Identity

Each and every person on this Earth today has an identity. Over the years, each individual creates their identity through past experiences, family, race, and many other factors. Race, which continues to cause problems in today’s world, places individuals into certain categories. Based on their race, people are designated to be part of a larger, or group identity instead of being viewed as a person with a unique identity. Throughout Richard Wright’s Black Boy, Richard is on a search for his true identity. Throughout Black Boy, one can see that Richard’s racial background assigns him with a certain identity or a certain way in which some

Racial identification is harder than ethnic identification for most people to avoid. To explain this, in “Racial Identities” in the

Throughout the essay, Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections, I found Kwame Anthony Appiah’s claims about social scripts to support my idea that we present ourselves differently depending on the circumstance. There are times when we try to play into the majority, as well as times where we try and fall into the minority; we choose which group we want to highlight depending on which will get us where we want to go.

Identity can mean different things to different people, but for most people, it’s about one’s personality and experiences. The 21st century has seen young people in various parts of the globe have a preference for some desired identity, which they deem superior, rather than accept their own identities. For example, in Goin Gangsta, Choosin Cholista: Claiming Identity, Neil Bernstein makes a case on how a number of people have claimed ethnic individualities other than their own and this is not an evil obsession (Bernstein, 1995). In this essay, a girl named April and her friends (and by extension most young people) believe that “identity is not a matter of where you come from, what you were born into, or what colour your skin is, but it’s everything

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.

     Identity is one of the main questions throughout all of our readings, because it is hard for people to accept who they are in society. Accepting their identity as a minority with little if any freedoms

Jeremy Lin is a household name and international superstar when it comes to basketball, yet he still insists that he is just like everyone else. Lin’s trajectory shifted as he left the Los Angeles Lakers to play for the Charlotte Hornets, but his goal remains the same as ever; “to glorify Christ.”

Racial identity and flexibility may be interpreted in a variety of ways. However, in reality they go hand-in-hand. Racial identity is defined as a sense of collective identity based on one's perception that he or she shares a common heritage with a specific racial group. On the other hand, racial identity can be considered as flexible or easily modified. Racial identity and flexibility intertwine because without each other, self-identifying would not be possible. In Hua Hsu’s essay, “The End of White America?” he argues in support of racial identity and flexibility complementing one another. This specifically shows that as society further evolves from being ignorant of race and culture, the closer mankind gets to eradicating the idea of a dominant

I totally agree with the assertion of A. Blemenfeld that those identification aspects that capture my attention are the targets of others people’s attention that is reflected back to me (Blumenfeld, 2010). Even though, I was always open-minded and had a friendly relationship with almost anybody, I felt that my racial identity was a part of a problem. As I was the only student of color, I felt alienated sometimes.

Finding your identity can be hard for some people. Your identity obviously makes you who you are. Gloria Anzaldua’s ‘To Live in the Borderlands’ (1987) and Justin Simien’s ‘Dear White People’ (2014) had a couple things in common when related to identity. In the poem, she talks about being between the borderlands and trying to find who you are based on where you are from and where you are now. I see a similar concept of not being able to decide who you really are in several characters in ‘Dear White People.’ When I think of the struggles with identity in both the poem and the movie, I think of the tug-of-war game. The reader, or character in the movie, is in the middle and having both sides of who they are on each

Throughout my life, certain identities have remained consist. And these identities have come to shape my perspectives and my needs and wants within American culture. Typically, my social

When asked to define ones cultural identity people usually take the path that leads to their country of origin. They describe their beliefs and tradition which mirrors the values of people within that geographic location. But what about the people who are torn between two cultures? How would they define their cultural identity? This is the problem faced by Henry Park, the protagonist of the book Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee. Originally from Korea, he immigrated to the United States with his parents when he was little. However, his struggle of trying to find his acceptance into the American culture still continues. The book outlines his endless uncertainty of trying to define his cultural identity and his feelings as an

A person’s identity may be determined by him/her family background and this is proven evident in the essay “Private and Public Language” by Rodriguez. We live in a world in which identities are determined prematurely without hesitation. This means that even without getting to know an individuals personality the first thing that is done instead is determining identities based on your physical state, family, or family background. As a culture we live in a diverse environment in which the majority of people come from a different place, and as a result many are identified differently depending on where he/she and their family are from. Today’s culture is more diverse than ever, and more and more people are migrating to different countries and settling so I feel like it

Similar to my family’s critical role in my personal and social identity’s development, my ethnicity also contributes some of the most noticeable modifications of a social agents affect on an individual’s personal and social identity. Ethnicity provides a sense of belonging to a group and or a place in a globalised society. As for myself, ethnicity on a micro, meso and macro scale has become a major element in my personal and social identity’s

(Staples, 2) By changing his identity, Staples slowly began to notice the change in strangers’ demeanor; people were calmer and finally seemed to relax around him. Staples’ making the decision to choose his own ethnic identity meant something to him. The changes he made had a purpose and produced positive results, thus, proving that the changes made to his ethnicity were powerful and had meaning.