Personal Essay On American Culture

When I was young, I knew nothing about the world except my parents. They guided me thorough their Nepali culture and environment in which they lived in. As a result, I have socially come to accept their culture norms and value as a person. Moving to a whole new different country called the United States, during the age of eleven, had a huge impact on my perspectives and social norms. Learning to speak a different language and “fitting in” to the new culture has shaped who I am today. As I grew older in a new society, I depended less on my parents that caused the segregation on the belief I hold today. A culture is the values, norms, and material goods characteristic that each group holds no matter who they are. The country where I grew up was called Nepal, where it is sandwiched by China and India. When I first popped out of my mother womb, I was a young baby with no knowledge of the world. My parents were my guiding light, until I had a sense of my own identity. Speaking in terms of Piaget Cognitive development stages, during my sensorimotor stage (age of 0-2), I was just exploring the world through perception and touch. At the second stage called Preoperational, where children have mastered basic modes of logical thought, I learned to speak my Nepali language and understand it. Language is a phenomenon of …show more content…
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