Cultural Self-Inventory Paper

Cultural Self-Inventory Paper
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Cultural Self-Inventory Paper
Introduction
It is a typical scenario for every person to have or command a unique cultural identity. The image projected to the world by someone is what is deemed as identity. Culture, on the other hand, is the perception one develops for himself (Hong et al, 2001). Therefore, culture plays a vital role in shaping someone’s identity. What a person believes in and the morals that someone has will stay with that person for the rest their life. Culture is a clear determinant of how a person relates to others on a daily basis. Our upbringing and backgrounds play an instrumental role in distinguishing one person from the other since people do not hail from the same backgrounds. I have always maintained my cultural identity since it has defined how I relate to the people that I know and those that I do not. I am a Chinese citizen aged 19, raised in Xi’an and currently in college. This paper seeks to discuss the various aspects relating to my self-culture and what has shaped it to date.
All the morals, which I exhibit today, are as a result of my strict parents who insisted on discipline and respect for others. They spelled out the dos, and the don’ts for me, which I obeyed without any objections. My parents had to do this because they too learned from their parents making it a generation’s assignment to shape the values of the community. Currently, I do not stay in China, but I proudly call myself a Chinese, since my cultural identity is what I am proud of. For additional diversity in life, I have never had a problem of assimilating with people from other walks of life. I am a proud Buddhist, and as such, I believe in what I was taught in the religion as a young person. This is an institution which together with my parents and school, have shaped my current life. According to Allen (n.d), the social identity theory is concerned with the tendencies of humans to get an identity through a group activity. That is the precise reason why having a family unit means a lot to me.
According to my Chinese traditions, all young people are taught how to be communal and interdependent, unlike the other Western countries’ cultures that focus on independence and individualism. As a young man, I was not taught to be self-centered, but to be willing to share the various duties assigned to me by my peers or the community. It is for this reason that the social structures were more defined in my community. The theory of social organization is well pronounced in China, especially where the conceptions are based on the duty based roles (Hong, et al, 2001). People in my culture believe and understand the roles they are supposed to play in the communities from which they come from. This is the precise reason that prompts me to uphold my culture wherever I traverse the world.
The activation of the dynamics of self-concept in bicultural
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