My View Of My Jewish Identity

In middle school I was bullied relentlessly. The boys at my middle school all ganged up on me and gave me a hard time for not being exactly like them. They saw that I stuck with the girls and they instantly associated that with me

I will begin with sharing my background and how I grew up.. First things first I grew up in Palmdale, CA which is about an hour out from LA city. I have grown up as the minority in school for about 12 years which most would think it's horrible, but that has shaped me being a hardened person who does not care about race whatsoever and learned pretty quick what it's like being poor and lower classed.. I personally have always thought bullying was a myth among legends that I only ever heard over movies and television, but once I moved to Northern California I soon came to realize that bullying was a real thing even though I have never been bullied in my life. I

Growing up in a small town I did not deal with much diversity. Out of a school of one-thousand kids we only had twelve black students and three hispanic students. The school is virtually homogenous. I was shocked to see how the world's attitude towards diversity differed from my narrominded town.

Growing up in a predominantly white town, and being white myself, in many ways I still felt as though I was a minority. My ability to tan quite easily rendered my Cherokee heritage quite evident. I was raised as an atheist in a primarily Baptist Christian Town and my parents perfectly fit the stereotype of born-again, hippy, tree-hugging vegetarians in an environment surrounded by pick-up trucks, guns and bacon on everything imaginable. I was different, and I felt it.

Possessing different physical attributes and cultural customs to the majority can make it difficult to feel like one belongs to a certain group. Groups are formed on opinion and common interests, not feeling like a person shares any of these things with another can make a person feel like an outsider especially a migrant.

When looking at Judaism, one has to go far back to biblical times to fully understand its origins. It started with the Hebrew people in the country of Israel. The bloodline of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob is what constitutes people as being Jewish. Being classified as a Jew, or a Jewish citizen has more to do with family ties, then what you believe in. The standard for being considered Jewish is that you have to be born to a Jewish mother. Some sects of Judaism like to include being born to a Jewish father as part of being Jewish. It can be looked at as more of a nationality or an ethnicity than a

I reside in one of thee most diverse city, state and district in America. Silver Spring, Maryland! Surrounded by the atmosphere of the Nation's Capital politics. Yet the biggest issue that is very dear to my persona is the achievement of minority scholars in America . Falling into the category of not being very privileged, I beg to differ what attributes being a minority has . To begin , the acknowledgment of minorities must be recognized . Where ever around the Globe we derive from . Minorities carry characteristics of being capable of the following . Open mindedness , risk taking ,passionate , willingness to succeed and cultural background in their spirits. If anything this has to do with one of the biggest issues in my hometown . The lack of

When someone asks me what is my cultural identity, there are a lot of things that come to my mind. For example, one of the first things that come to my mind is the how people see me which is by being hispanic. In the same way, I also think about the fact that in addition to being hispanic I am also Salvadorean which sets me apart from the idea that every hispanic is mexican and they are all the same. In the first few seconds after I am asked about my cultural identity, I think about who I am and what makes me me. I think about how I was raised and how different I might be compared to everyone around me. I am a straight male who does not have any disabilities. I do not have a high socioeconomic status, but I have sufficient. Being catholic, I have no problem exercising my religion as I please and that really sets me apart from many because not everyone identifies with the same cultural identity as I do. Some people encounter many obstacles due to their cultural identity, obstacles that I might not face which is why I feel like my cultural identity has affected different aspects of my life such as my social development, family, education among others.

"Being a member of a minority group can make those events have a larger meaning," Walton said. "When your group is in the minority, being rejected by a classmate or having a teacher say something negative to you could seem like proof that you don’t belong, and maybe evidence that your group doesn’t belong either. That feeling could lead you to work less hard and ultimately do less well."

Growing up, I was surrounded by a very homogeneous society. My small town was not diverse and I became one of few minorities of that population. I learned and accepted that I was one of the only Asians in my school.

I live in a country where I can meet people from all cultures and walks of life on a daily basis, yet still I have felt like a stranger in this “melting pot”. In the United States, the idea of diversity is a term I have heard many times when speaking of ways to heal the past of slavery and segregation, but I think that in the current political climate, diversity is seen as an enemy to the American way of life. I am an outsider in the country I call home, and my cultural background has impacted the way I see the world.

I was in kindergarten when I nearly got suspended for spitting on a boy. I lived in Chula Vista, and I happened to be the only kid in my class of asian descent. Almost instantly, I felt isolated and I watched other kids in my class make friends easily with the other

Jewish history is a study of a people in exile. Since the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem, the experience of the Jewish individual in relation to non-Jewish society has often been that of an outsider looking in. In addition, the distinct Jewish culture, religion, and philosophy identifiably marked the Jews as a separate people. Although this demarcation exposed the Jews to many negative ideological trends, Isaac Deutscher’s “The Non-Jewish Jew” argues that this marginalization enabled the great thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries to revolutionize the European continent. As the title suggests, the non-Jewish Jews were individuals that abandoned Judaism. Deutscher argues that the historical exclusion

Diversity is easy when you have lived in different countries and indulged in various cultures throughout childhood. My journey began when I was born in Indiana and by the time I was 7, I had experienced life in Hong Kong, Japan and we eventually settled in Hawaii for the remainder of my adolescence. My father was the president of an air cargo company and traveled extensively, always coming home with various gifts from exotic places. It wouldn't be a lie to say I was an ungrateful spoiled brat, however that all changed after he left for a business trip and never came back. My father abandoned us in the spring of 2000, emptying all our savings and college funds and disappeared. Unlike diversity, adversity was hard for me, but it has made a solid foundation that I can build anything on, even earning a challenging degree in information technology.

I was still finding my bearings and coming to terms with gravity on this strange blue-green planet.