My Cultural Identity - 1173 Words

Charles F. Glassman once said, â€Å"In a few seconds, we judge another person and think we know them. When, the person we’ve lived with the longest, we still don’t know very well- ourselves.† Writing about my values has gave me a better understanding of who I am. I now understand the several ways my culture has shaped me to become who I am. My cultural autobiography will allow me to reveal who I truly am by understanding my cultural identity. My cultural identity is the combination of my worldview and values as well as my position in the eight microcultures. My worldview is that I get what I give. I believe I only get out what I put in. As a result, I try to put forth my best effort in everything that I do. My top values are†¦show more content†¦I understand I am not dominant in the religion microculture but till this day it has had little to no effect on my cultural identity. My position in some microcultures challenges or frustrates me. The three microcultures in which I feel challenged or frustrated are race/ethnicity, gender, and age. I am not dominant in the race/ ethnicity microculture therefore it challenges me. Being a female with colored skin had brought many challenges along my life. For example, one evening at work a co worker was trying to turn off the lights of the building and she accidentally turned off a switch which wasn’t ours. I immediately turned the switch back on and went to apologize to the lady because my co worker was to scarred. As I tried to apologize the white lady immediately cu t me off and started to yell at me because I had ruined her machine. This lady yelled and humiliated me in front of everyone. She believed the reason why we had turned her switch off was because we couldn’t read English. The lady clearly did not know anything about me because if she did she would have known I started school when I was three where I was taught how to read and write. But because all she could see was my brown skin she assumed I was simply an illiterate Mexican. Having brown skin and not being a citizen in the United States has not been easy. People don’t treat me the same way they would treat a young white female. Being in the subordinate groupShow MoreRelatedMy Identity And Cultural Identity1870 Words   |  8 PagesI currently am a 20-year-old African-American male that has been through a lot to be where I am today. I grew up in a predominantly white town, because my parents wanted me to grow up in a school where I would not only be smart and success ful, but safe. My parents doing that to me young was probably the best thing and worst thing that could have happened to me. 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