The Importance of Learning about Cultural Identity
Cultural identity is an individual or a family’s background, how they were brought up, how they view life, their values, religion and the language spoken. Parents should know why it is a great idea to teach their children about their cultural identity. Cultural identity benefits children in many ways when they are out in the real world, allowing them to accept, value, and understand their own culture. Parents should make sure the children are brought up aware of their own cultural identity for the reason that understanding one’s own culture identities helps one to communicate with people and accept cultures different from their own, despite color; knowing one’s culture allows an individual to know who they are and where they come from and gives …show more content…
According to “Confessions of a Blue Chip Black”, “I did have a sense that it was unfair for poor Negroes to be relegated to bad jobsif they had jobs at alland to bad or miserable housing, but didn’t feel any great sense of identity with them” (247). His parents had degrees compared to the other black parents around in his neighborhood. There were times when the kids would try to take his money, fight him and even make him feel intimidated by them. He was in an awkward situation at church where one of the boys there had called him a “Technicolor Paddy”. After all, he felt alone, “I have rarely felt so alone as I did that day riding home from church. Already partly excluded by my white friends, I was now almost completely alienated from my own people as well…” (249). There was a time when he had to tell his class where his family originated from, but because he did not belong, he lied and told the students that his last name Wilkins was an English name and that his family had come from Egypt. You should not have to be ashamed of where you come from and who you
Cultural identity is an individual or a family’s background, how they were brought up, how they view life, their values, religion and the language spoken. Parents should know why it is a great idea to teach their children about their cultural identity. Cultural identity benefits children in many ways when they are out in the real world, allowing them to accept, value, and understand their own culture. Parents should make sure the children are brought up aware of their own cultural identity for the reason that understanding one’s own culture identities helps one to communicate with people and accept cultures different from their own, despite color; knowing one’s culture allows an individual to know who they are and where they come from and gives …show more content…
According to “Confessions of a Blue Chip Black”, “I did have a sense that it was unfair for poor Negroes to be relegated to bad jobsif they had jobs at alland to bad or miserable housing, but didn’t feel any great sense of identity with them” (247). His parents had degrees compared to the other black parents around in his neighborhood. There were times when the kids would try to take his money, fight him and even make him feel intimidated by them. He was in an awkward situation at church where one of the boys there had called him a “Technicolor Paddy”. After all, he felt alone, “I have rarely felt so alone as I did that day riding home from church. Already partly excluded by my white friends, I was now almost completely alienated from my own people as well…” (249). There was a time when he had to tell his class where his family originated from, but because he did not belong, he lied and told the students that his last name Wilkins was an English name and that his family had come from Egypt. You should not have to be ashamed of where you come from and who you