Every person, or group of people, has an identity, name and a culture. In our modern culture identity is defined in two ways: who we really think we are and what other believe we are, identity is shaped through the many interactions we have throughout our lifetime.
Personally I have always been on the quest to find my own identity but when my family decided to move from Mexico to the United States of America when I was just 14 years old, my family and specially me suffered major identity crisis. A whole different culture, unused language to learn and several new obstacles to overcome at young age. One of the factors of forming an identity will obviously be your family. The largest, most influential relationships that molds our character is …show more content…
My family an extremely religious family, always helping at church and very devoting to its religion, but i certainly have an incompatible standpoint to my families ones. My parents were genuinely understandable of my decision of not being part of our family’s religion and that has been an immense support to my own beliefs but specially to my own cultural identity. Although it is very simple and logical to me, I have always thought that no one in my family will ever understand my way of …show more content…
I was just 14 years old at the time, learning a new language was an obstacle for myself the first year in school, but since i am fast learner i overcame that barrier fairly quick. My main problem was trying to fit in High School. As a freshman, i struggle to make friends, my English was minimal, i did not dress as cools as them, or because they knew I was fairly new. I felt alone and discriminated at the same time. Everything radically changed for the following year, my English improved drastically as i attended two english classes a day during summer, i started to make friends and felt like fit in at that time. During my four years of high school i had the same problem, i think i did never fit in in any group of friends, it was fine with me, but i started realizing that i was probably the problem in a good way. i never shared the same ideology as all the friends i made during my high school years. i hardly drink, i don 't do any drugs and i just go out once in a while and that is what they did back in high school. i was really focused on my education in the moment.
After high school i had to put my education on hold in order to get a job and help my parents with rent and bills, it is highly expensive to live here in this city but i really love it. The economical was a major issue when my family
Personally I have always been on the quest to find my own identity but when my family decided to move from Mexico to the United States of America when I was just 14 years old, my family and specially me suffered major identity crisis. A whole different culture, unused language to learn and several new obstacles to overcome at young age. One of the factors of forming an identity will obviously be your family. The largest, most influential relationships that molds our character is …show more content…
My family an extremely religious family, always helping at church and very devoting to its religion, but i certainly have an incompatible standpoint to my families ones. My parents were genuinely understandable of my decision of not being part of our family’s religion and that has been an immense support to my own beliefs but specially to my own cultural identity. Although it is very simple and logical to me, I have always thought that no one in my family will ever understand my way of …show more content…
I was just 14 years old at the time, learning a new language was an obstacle for myself the first year in school, but since i am fast learner i overcame that barrier fairly quick. My main problem was trying to fit in High School. As a freshman, i struggle to make friends, my English was minimal, i did not dress as cools as them, or because they knew I was fairly new. I felt alone and discriminated at the same time. Everything radically changed for the following year, my English improved drastically as i attended two english classes a day during summer, i started to make friends and felt like fit in at that time. During my four years of high school i had the same problem, i think i did never fit in in any group of friends, it was fine with me, but i started realizing that i was probably the problem in a good way. i never shared the same ideology as all the friends i made during my high school years. i hardly drink, i don 't do any drugs and i just go out once in a while and that is what they did back in high school. i was really focused on my education in the moment.
After high school i had to put my education on hold in order to get a job and help my parents with rent and bills, it is highly expensive to live here in this city but i really love it. The economical was a major issue when my family