This essay will demonstrate the challenges faced by myself due to my self-identity and also the ideology of others cultures. It will provide an insight into how cultures are made up and how different they can be. My thoughts on others and how I have been taught will be addressed, it will explore and identify my knowledge of how I differ from others and the opposite.
One of the first components that came to mind when identifying myself was the fact that I am Muslim. In recent years I have faced struggles due to this, although I do not wear a hijab or preach about Islam, I am still accused of being a terrorist. Why is it that the media only portrays the minority of hate crimes caused by radical Muslims? Because of a minority, we are all made …show more content…
Migrating to a multicultural country allowed my family and I to communicate with others different from ourselves, if we didn’t believe their opinions it did not mean that they were wrong. I met and fell in love with an Indian at the age of 20, my father had a bad idea about them and would also say that all Indians are either taxi drivers or dairy owners, and up until the moment I started dating an Indian myself I somehow believed him. While getting to know this person and his family I had learnt that what my father had assumed was so far from the truth. Because of his perceptions, dad had refused to accept my relationship. It wasn’t until I had introduced him to the man that I was dating that his mentality changed. He had learnt that unlike his thoughts on Indians, the one I was with came from a business minded and well educated family with no relation to the taxi or dairy industry. Not only did my views change so did my father’s as we both got a better understanding of the culture and through communication with the entire Indian family. I lacked in knowledge about the Sikh religion too, but had learnt from the mother about the prayers, the gurus and the festivities. Communicating with more Indians and Sikhs allowed for my opinion to change, the one that was given to me by someone
One of the first components that came to mind when identifying myself was the fact that I am Muslim. In recent years I have faced struggles due to this, although I do not wear a hijab or preach about Islam, I am still accused of being a terrorist. Why is it that the media only portrays the minority of hate crimes caused by radical Muslims? Because of a minority, we are all made …show more content…
Migrating to a multicultural country allowed my family and I to communicate with others different from ourselves, if we didn’t believe their opinions it did not mean that they were wrong. I met and fell in love with an Indian at the age of 20, my father had a bad idea about them and would also say that all Indians are either taxi drivers or dairy owners, and up until the moment I started dating an Indian myself I somehow believed him. While getting to know this person and his family I had learnt that what my father had assumed was so far from the truth. Because of his perceptions, dad had refused to accept my relationship. It wasn’t until I had introduced him to the man that I was dating that his mentality changed. He had learnt that unlike his thoughts on Indians, the one I was with came from a business minded and well educated family with no relation to the taxi or dairy industry. Not only did my views change so did my father’s as we both got a better understanding of the culture and through communication with the entire Indian family. I lacked in knowledge about the Sikh religion too, but had learnt from the mother about the prayers, the gurus and the festivities. Communicating with more Indians and Sikhs allowed for my opinion to change, the one that was given to me by someone