Identity element

for example, attire, dialect, music, ethnicity, and even religion. Inward culture is the shallow inside, for instance, feelings, values, ethics, correspondence, and even deep sense of being. A person’s outer personality does not recognize their identity or their social character. Our inner culture somewhat does. However, people tend to judge people based on their appearance or culture, prejudices can also impact one’s life. To begin with, I identify as Hispanic. Hispanics tend to be uproarious…

Identity refers to the different qualities, expressions and beliefs used to make a person unique. There are plenty of factors that can influence a person’s identity but I choose to believe that a person’s identity is molded by the physical environment they are placed. Home; the most important place in a person’s life and definitely the most important place that influences a person’s identity. Home is where I was born and raised as a child – a place where I first cried, laughed, smiled, walked…

A cultural encounter is the interaction of one or more culture with another culture. Culture encounter is not only a condition related to nationality or ethnicity, but it could also be an interaction between two members of any two groups with different norms, such as men and women. The interactions of people from different cultures require the understanding and respect of people’s beliefs, the way they live life and to discover new things about their world and cultures. However, culture…

Complex Cultural Identity and the Transmission of Culture The relationship between culture and individual identity is in a continuous cycle where culture helps in shaping the identity of the individual, then the individual helps back by transmitting culture to different generations, so the cycle goes on again. In this paper, I explore this continuous relationship between culture and the individual identity in Honor, Dolly City, and My Grandmother. I argue that a complex cultural identity exists…

Alibrandi, a typical teenager going through adolescence and learning more about her self-identity. The question posed is, “how has the author used stylistic features and conventions to depict an idea and to influence interpretations of this idea?” Features include the plot/script, characterization and Intertextual references. The plot/script shows the progression of Josie getting a grip on her self-identity by understanding how privileged she is, accepting her cultural background, feeling…

PAKISTANI CULTURE-A VALUE ORIENTED CULTURE QUESTION: Pakistani culture is a value oriented culture. Justify the statement. CULTURE Culture is an ever-changing phenomenon. The word culture has many definitions. It is basically known as way of living of people. According to Herskovits: “Man-made environment is called culture.” PAKISTANI CULTURE Pakistani culture is basically a mixed culture(blend of different cultures). It is influenced and affected by various cultures like western, Indian,…

How do shared events, past and present, define communities? All communities can be defined by shared events. Everything that we do is a reflection of the things that we have experienced in the past, or are currently experiencing. It is these shared events, both past and present, that essentially define who we are and how we belong within a community. They provide a basis for our self perception which is influenced by the different values and ideologies of the communities that we surround…

their worth. If they come from the lowest of society, do they reflect this? Does coming from “trash” make you trash? In our society, people often have such personality crises, in relation to their social standing or background. The struggle of self identity and purpose displayed in the clones is another way Romank uses common human struggles to engage with the…

THEORETICAL FOUNDATION AND HYPOTHSES Status and status dissimilarity People pursue status in social groups (Anderson & Kilduff, 2009). Firstly, what is status? In the existing literature, quite a lot of overlaps exist with the definitions of status. Among them, respect is widely recognized as indicators of peoples’ position and status within social collectives (Anderson & Kilduff, 2009; Bendersky & Shah, 2013). Thus, to put it explicitly, status is defined as the respect ones receive from…

motivated to accentuate the identity of their groups and protect, defend and improve the value afforded to those groups and their members (Ellemers & Haslam, 2012). In some instances this process can be to the detriment of other groups and their members (Tajfel, 1978c). Identity management strategies. There are certain strategies that individuals in groups can adopt in order to address the low-status of their social groups and in turn recuperate the value of their social identity (Ellemers &…