Culture Shock Essay

Your life is the story of your existence. Each story is different, but they all contain the same variables. These include birth, growth, change, and death. Anything else is based on both your decisions and the decisions of the people around you. My life follows the same rule, although, I am typing out my story for you to read while your life will remain to be much of a mystery. Like most, my life starts with birth which, for me, occurred on December 5th, 2001 in the small town of Florence, SC…

Narrative Essay Rough Draft Ever feel like you need to pack up your bags and leave? Or need a change of scenery? Need to meet new people? Do you ever feel like you just need to leave? I know I do. My mindset about leaving has yet to change, although many said it would by the time things start getting “real.” I never understood what people meant by that. Is being “real” staying 30 miles from home in the same place you have lived your whole life? If so, that’s not what I want. Why can’t doing…

ethnicity become a thing of the past? R. Radhakrishnan further scrutinizes this dichotomy through his narrative of ethnicity in the United States. He holds that initially immigrants suppress their identity in order to assimilate into the American culture and make themselves more attractive in the face of opportunity and success in a new “home” (R. Radhakrishnan 121). This explicitly underlines the concept of assimilation and simultaneously the volatile identity of a new Indian immigrant,…

To grasp the concept of personal identity, one has to address the problems it arises. “Who am I?”, “Personhood”, “Persistence”, “Evidence”,“Population”, “What am I?”, and “What matters in identity” are the questions that need to be faced in order to create a more elevated understanding of self (). In this essay, I will discuss the effects of cosmopolitanism on personal identity, analyze Locke’s position of what constitutes identity, and identify what is Hume’s perspective on “I.” Explain…

While modesty is a seemingly obscure trait in modern society. Its meaning is one that is shaped by one's environment. For example, in Victorian England, they may feel that some clothes are modest, while in America they may find the clothes outrageous. Due to this point, modesty is defined differently by many people, but usually falls somewhat in the place of its latin roots. Whether modesty is being tolerant of others, or the way you go about dressing yourself it is essential to how carry…

Street. And of course, I also had watched the important film Echoes of the Rainbow filmed at this street that had indeed changed the fate of the whole street. In my opinion, I think Wing Lee Street is absolutely a good case for studying both street culture as well as the re-adaptation of space. To briefly introduce Wing Lee Street, it is a terrace located in the southern part of Sheung Wan. Wing Lee Street runs parallel…

gets us nowhere.” In this Columbia Professors’ New York Times article Borrowing from Other Cultures Is Human Nature, McWhorter identifies what the relationship between imitation and appropriation is. Clearly, McWhorter expresses an unpopular opinion regarding cultural appropriation. With that, there is truth to what he has to say. The idea that appropriation is, at its core, majority groups stealing cultures from minorities is not true. By definition ‘cultural appropriation’ is “a term used to…

Do you know who you truly are? That is the question that Gene Luen Yang tries to explain in his graphic novel “American Born Chinese.” The story follows three different characters and their journey to knowing who they are. Each journey is different, but each is linked by the central theme of self identity. These three characters all have to go on a Hero’s Journey. A concept that explains a single character's arc in the story. The Hero’s Journey starts with a call to action. The hero is presented…

native language and the new language. Children in these families may feel as if they have more power over their immigrant family members because they are more accustomed to the new culture and thus results in a power struggle. These impacts can lead to acculturative stress, stress from trying to adapt to a new culture and experiencing psychological effects from the…

meetings at the Kingdom Hall, place of worship, and while there, I take pictures with fellow sisters and brothers. I then share my pictures with others. It is important to have a balance between the individualized and familial identities. In my culture, everyone is encouraged to become both independent and interdependent. My dad always reminds me that individually, we carry our load, but together we carry each other's burden. A burden is heavier…