Cultural Self-Awareness & Intersectionality

Cultural Self-Awareness & Intersectionality
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Cultural Self-Awareness & Intersectionality
Part 1: Self-Awareness Exercise
Eight intersectional identities that define my social and political selves relate to gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, class, disability, weight, and age. I identify as a female, straight, Chinese, attractive, liberal, able, lean, and young individual. I experience all these eight factors simultaneously, and separating one from the other is often difficult.
Part 2: Identity Dialogue
Essay 1
The three identity intersections most vital to me are gender, race, and age. My conception as a female affects nearly all aspects of my life: as a woman, I am expected to speak, act, dress, and conduct myself in a manner consistent with social conceptions about my assigned sex. Race is another essential construction of my identity. My racial identity influences how I think about myself and my social status and privileges. I am a member of a minority group, which affects my social status in invisible and indirect ways. Similarly, my age affects how I dress and think, especially regarding career decisions.
Essay 2
The identity intersection shaped by the values of my ethnic/cultural membership is gender and ethnicity. My cultural identity is largely shaped by my ethnicity and gender. My Chinese ethnicity means that I prefer to avoid conflict, pay attention to social relationships, respect social hierarchy, and am not as individualistic as people from Western cultures (Jin & Wang, 2022). As a woman, I am expected to behave, speak, dress, and act in a manner that is consistent with the gender roles assigned by my culture. My Chinese ancestry and gender intersect to influence how I communicate with others, dev...