scholarly journals Cultural Identity Formation: A Personal Narrative

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
Jose Carbajal
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Professional Social Worker ◽  
Cultural Identity Formation

This paper provides personal experiences and perceptions of being a minoritized individual. This is the story of a professional social worker learning to adapt to social norms and expectations of self. He discusses the struggles he experienced as an adolescent and as a young adult attending college. Through this narrative, the role of faith and social work intersect, especially as a professional social worker. It is at this intersection that this social worker learns to live a holistic life without feeling discriminated against or ashamed of his identity. He begins to actualize a reality with imperfect beings who also struggle to maintain their identity as well. Thus, in this paper, the author provides a snapshot of his development as a minority in the United States.   

scholarly journals Sojourner Culture Shock: Assessing the Role of Exposure in Intrapersonal Identity Conflict

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Asfahani
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Culture Shock ◽  
The United States ◽  
Identity Conflict ◽  
Saudi Arabian Students ◽  
Pearson Correlation Test ◽  
The Relationship

This research assesses the relationship between intercultural exposure variables—the length of time spent in the United States, the length of previous experience outside Saudi Arabia, the length of time studying English as a second language, and the frequency and nature of interactions with Americans—and intrapersonal identity conflict. To assess this relationship, the researcher conducted a survey of Saudi Arabian students studying in the United States, which collected information on exposure variables, as well as employing Leong and Ward’s (2000) Ethno-Cultural Identity Conflict Scale (EICS). A Pearson correlation test was conducted to examine the relationship between the Saudi sojourners’ intercultural exposure and their identity conflict scores to conclude that there is not a relationship between exposure and identity conflict.

Identity-Mapping in the Sardinian Bronze Age

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Blake
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Distinct Boundary ◽  
Cultural Identity Formation ◽  
Material Record

The aim of this paper is to locate in the emergence and elaboration of Sardinia's Nuragic society, a narrative of cultural identity formation. The Nuragic period is typically defined in terms of economic, social, and demographic characteristics, and a Nuragic identity is implicitly taken to be a passive byproduct of these material circumstances. Such an account overlooks the role of identity in enabling and characterizing human action. The disjointed and contradictory Nuragic period transition preceded the formation of a coherent cultural identity. This identity, it will be argued, underwent a retrospective rearticulation to establish a distinct boundary between the Nuragic society and its antecedents. The material record illustrates clearly that the history of the Nuragic identity is implicated in social development on Sardinia in the second millennium BC.

scholarly journals Identity Crisis: The Agency of Instagram in Schools of Architecture

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin J. Smith ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Prospective Student ◽  
Representational Practice ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

The focus of this paper addresses themes of neoliberalism, university commercialization and marketing, architecture school identity formation as a representational practice through social media, and the role of image curation and its production in contemporary architecture. This paper emerged after hearing the phrase ‘buyer’s motive,’ which explained what schools needed to consider for attracting students to their programs at a conference by Ruffalo Noel Levtiz on recruitment, marketing, and retention in higher education in the United States. The use of the word, ‘buyer’, instead of ‘student’, or ‘prospective student’, or ‘learner’ seemingly transformed the production of engaged education to its passive consumption.

Forming strong cultural identities in an intersecting space of indigeneity and autism in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 416-424
Author(s):  
Heather A Simpson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
The United States ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Cultural Genocide ◽  
Positive Identity ◽  
Autistic People

Through its hegemonic ideologies, colonialism and its constituent underpinnings of religious and racial superiority, necessitates the erasure of the cultural identity of people outside the dominant Euro-Western culture and as non-normative groups, Indigenous Peoples and autistic people disabled per colonized paradigms, experience oppression, and subjugation harmful to self-identity and mental health. This article discusses culturally responsive interventions aimed at supporting strong cultural identity formation and safeguard Indigenous and autistic people from stigmatization, misrepresentation, and erasure of identity. Promising research uses Indigenous knowledges in education and arts programming to disrupt patterns of social injustice, exclusion, and cultural genocide while promote positive identity formation, pride, and resilience for Indigenous autistics. While Indigenous and autistic people exist globally, this article reviews literature from Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

scholarly journals Art and Disability: Intersecting Identities Among Young Artists with Disabilities

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski ◽  
Heike Boeltzig ◽  
Rooshey Hasnain
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Disability Culture ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Disability Identity ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Intersecting Identities

<p>Disability arts in the United Kingdom and disability culture in the United States play important roles in expressing a positive disability identity. This paper reports on expressions about identity, in both artwork and reflective words, of 47 young artists with disabilities who were finalists in the VSA arts / Volkswagen arts competition between 2002 and 2005. As part of an evaluation of this program, we reviewed the artists' application essays and artwork. In doing so, we found a wealth of information on their perceptions of what it means to be a person with a disability and an artist, and how these two identities intersect. The findings provide insights into the role of the arts in identity formation for young people with disabilities, and point to the potential for future research on how arts and disability interact.</p><p>Keywords</p><p>affirmative model of disability, impairment, art, artists, culture, identity</p>

scholarly journals Frida Kahlo’s Self-Identity: An Analysis of Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Leyuan Ma
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Frida Kahlo ◽  
Mexican Culture ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Political Stance ◽  
Insight Into

Self-Portrait on the Borderline Between Mexico and the United States by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo reveals a multitude of insights. This paper assesses how the nuances embodied in the painting serve as critical clues to comprehend Frida Kahlo’s personal experiences, Mexican culture, and the approach of discovering the contextual background through the work of art. Beginning with a detailed formal analysis of the portrait, this paper further explores it by making connections with contextual evidence. Through timely reference to Frida Kahlo’s political stance, cultural identity, and health, the paper demonstrates how the painting proffers insight into both the artist’s life and Aztec culture.

scholarly journals A Quixotic Venture: Spanish-Philippine Poetry at the Turn of the 19th Century, or Resistance against Oblivion

HUMANIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 426
Author(s):  
Mario Sánchez Gumiel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
First Century ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Spanish Colonization ◽  
The 19Th Century

This essay explores, by means of three Philippine poems written in Spanish during the first half of the twentieth century, the claim of a Philippine cultural identity sustained in the Spanish heritage. After a short overview of the Spanish colonization in the Philippines and the presence of the Spanish language in the archipelago, I will use Paul Friedrich’s theoretical approach on poetry as a source for the study of a culture. Then I will proceed to the examination of three poems written by Philippine writers: Fernando María Guerreros’ “A Hispania” (1913), Claro Mayo Recto’s “Las dalagas Filipinas” (1911), and Jesús Balmori’s “Blasón” (undated) by means of the close reading approach. In the exploration of this claim of a Philippine cultural identity rooted in the Spanish heritage, I additionally consider the role of the United States, and take into account some initiatives that have tried to continue the study of this literature throughout the twentieth and twenty-first century. I conclude that poetry is a valuable way to analyse culture, and, for the specific case of Spanish and the Philippines, I suggest that Spanish-Philippine poetry helps know the heritage of Spanish in the archipelago

Assessing the Role of Quest and Religiosity on Identity Formation Among Emerging Adults in India and the United States

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niyatee Sukumaran ◽  
Jennie Mendes ◽  
Jane Compson ◽  
Steven L. Berman ◽  
Min Cheng
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
The United States
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