My Three Cultures by Gust A. Yep is a short story about a child learning about their multicultural explains that she has learnt three different languages by the time she attented college. “I learned to speak Chinese first, mainly to communicate with my grandmother, a traditional Chinese woman…I then learned to speak Spanish in Peru, where we lived until I finished high school…I started learning English when I came to the United States to attend college (60).” She continues her narration with explaining what identity is. “Identity is a person conception of self within a particular social, geographical, cultural, and political context (61).” She continues to explain that people like her can have multiple indentities based off of race, gender,occupactional,
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The political aspect of cultural identity questions “everybody else,” the identification to the dominant group, takes on a natural appearance, remains unnamed and unquestioned, and therefore disguses and hides power relations between the oppressor and the oppressed. Secondly, cultural identity is fluid. Ones cultural identity is ever evolving, growing, and channing. Third, cultural identity is nonsummative. “In other words, one’s cultural identity is not a simple addition of the component parts of ones cultural background (62).” She continues to explain that she does not favor one ethnicity over the other but that she is a sum of all three. Earlier, she explains that people usually expect her to choose one ethnicity over the other. “People who are multicultural and multiracial are often expected to choose and privilege one aspect of their background over others (62).” In order to solve this issues we must communicate in the process of co-creation and re-cretion of ones cultural …show more content…
Nance, explores the issue surrounding biracial identity formation. In this essay, it explains that “Identity formation are not created by the self alone but are co-created through communication with others (35-36).” Nance, continues by saying, “And sometimes these messages conflict with how we see ourselves. The identity that we avow may not be the one that is ascribed to us by others. For example, biracial people are sometimes forced to place themselves in a category where they do not fit (36).” This essay explores how biracial identity was developed in the United States by taking a look back in history. “The Africans had been enslaved since the early part of the 17th century but did ot accumulate in number until the 19th century (36).” Even after enslavement of African Americans ended, the popular myth of “One drop of Black blood made one an African American,” that was derived from old laws. However, we know today that it is really about cultural dominance and power. The one- drop myth was a way of dividing boundaries of White and Black Americans. Nance also explains the perspective of biracical parents during a period in history. “Biracial people were described as “marginal” people who lived tormented lives of self-doubt and social ostracism (38).” This essay further explains various ways parents of biracial children can cope with media messages. As mentioned earlier, having communication strategies and bringing
The political aspect of cultural identity questions “everybody else,” the identification to the dominant group, takes on a natural appearance, remains unnamed and unquestioned, and therefore disguses and hides power relations between the oppressor and the oppressed. Secondly, cultural identity is fluid. Ones cultural identity is ever evolving, growing, and channing. Third, cultural identity is nonsummative. “In other words, one’s cultural identity is not a simple addition of the component parts of ones cultural background (62).” She continues to explain that she does not favor one ethnicity over the other but that she is a sum of all three. Earlier, she explains that people usually expect her to choose one ethnicity over the other. “People who are multicultural and multiracial are often expected to choose and privilege one aspect of their background over others (62).” In order to solve this issues we must communicate in the process of co-creation and re-cretion of ones cultural …show more content…
Nance, explores the issue surrounding biracial identity formation. In this essay, it explains that “Identity formation are not created by the self alone but are co-created through communication with others (35-36).” Nance, continues by saying, “And sometimes these messages conflict with how we see ourselves. The identity that we avow may not be the one that is ascribed to us by others. For example, biracial people are sometimes forced to place themselves in a category where they do not fit (36).” This essay explores how biracial identity was developed in the United States by taking a look back in history. “The Africans had been enslaved since the early part of the 17th century but did ot accumulate in number until the 19th century (36).” Even after enslavement of African Americans ended, the popular myth of “One drop of Black blood made one an African American,” that was derived from old laws. However, we know today that it is really about cultural dominance and power. The one- drop myth was a way of dividing boundaries of White and Black Americans. Nance also explains the perspective of biracical parents during a period in history. “Biracial people were described as “marginal” people who lived tormented lives of self-doubt and social ostracism (38).” This essay further explains various ways parents of biracial children can cope with media messages. As mentioned earlier, having communication strategies and bringing