Marcia’s concept of identity statuses is role confusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and identity achievement. Out of his four statuses, the one that I feel that has developed my identity from my childhood to my current status is foreclosure, which affected my religious identity. Erickson’s term for foreclosure is stated as “when an adolescent adopts parents’ or society’s roles and values wholesale, without questioning or analysis.” Growing up, I did not think much of religion as I didn’t have a clear understanding of the concept and the many practices. My parents are from Vietnam and moved here in the United States in the early 1980s. Buddhist is the main religion practiced in the Vietnamese culture. My mother practiced it and prayed to Buddha
