Identity In America

Identities are practiced between migrant groups, individuals and communities, and the diasporic community. The movement of people from one physical location to another location for the purpose of improving the economic position of themselves, their families and their communities is a fairly recent form of consensual diaspora. People are electing to leave their homes in search of a better future. In moving to another locale this individuals becomes a migrant transplanted into a new physical location. The uprooting of a person’s lives changes them and their identity, they must orientate their identity in their new locale. A strong example diasporic community who actively practice their identity is the Samoan-American community of Seattle, Washington in the United Stated of America in Barbara McGrath article “Seattle Fa'a Samoa.” (2002). …show more content…
Bourdieu’s theory of habitus is the embodiment of the cultural capital causing the innate behavior of a particular culture (reference). In American-Samoan culture the institutions of family and church are the leading beckons of identity thusly they are examples of spaces that help embody identity within the American-Samoan