Essays on Cultural Identity

Human beings have the natural tendency to attribute causes to behavior. The Attribution Theory can be used to help us understand and determine the factors that affect our behavior and the behaviors of our coworkers. According to this theory, the two main factors that shape…

English, alongside with Filipino, is one of the languages of the Philippines used for communication and instruction as provided by Article 7 of the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines (Tan, 2014). It has become the second language of the Philippines and has been widely used…

What does it mean to become a real Canadian? For an immigrant, being able to feel like they belong in the new country they live in, it is not an easy thing to do. Having to learn a new language, a new way to express…

Language often heavily burdened by political populism and leftism in African Postcolonial Literature, which appeared to promote rejection. One of the literary ramifications of nationalist / anti-colonial agitation was an aesthetic based on race that saw even the new product of literary hybridity born of…

An Igbo immigrant attended graduate school in Chicago, leaving Nigeria. He would soon be followed by friends and family, creating an Igbo identity in the United States. Although education in America causes culture change for Igbo Americans, Igbo Americans should integrate their native culture in…

Globalisation and rapid development of economies has resulted into more multinational corporations worldwide which in turn developed more demand for managers who are skilled in working with employees from countries other than their own and who are familiar with global management. It’s often observed that…

Clash is a part of man, so it is a wide range of socio-cultural and professional relations. Those who do not experience conflict in the workplace are living in the dream world, their environment blind or in solitary confinement (Boehar, 2001). Over the past several…

Each individual in their background faces cultural conflict or struggle. It happens when two distinct societies, qualities, conventions or practices of various individuals faces one another and have an alternate arrangement of sentiments and so on. Cultural conflict is a serious ordinary phenomenon and it…

Jewish liberals and reformists in Western/Middle Europe during the 19th century were confronted with a rather significant predicament that forced them to reconcile with the stark discrepancy between emancipation and existing as a group that was at best tolerated. The sacrifice in choosing the “package”…

Assimilation describes the act of taking something in and absorbing it fully. Assimilation comes from the Latin assimilationem, meaning “likeness’ or ‘similarity.”… Assimilation can also refer to the absorption of new ideas into existing knowledge. An example of assimilation is the change of dress and…

In olden times, our ancestors followed different lifestyles which varied widely from territory to territory. Back then, there weren’t specific divided boundaries to divide the land into states and countries. Monarchy prevailed then. Each territory followed a certain pattern of living which influenced their literature,…

When we hear the word trans, it’s mostly associated with sexuality and gender, however, a new concept has come up.. The act of associating with a race other than the one you were born into. Identifying with a race that diverges from your ‘birth ethnicity’…

Black people have always been active in asserting their being or humanity in the face of oppression. Whether it be art or rebellion, black people always seek to express and assert their conceptions of blackness within society. This expression has also taken form in mindsets…

Wider communities and culture has taken a big part in our lives by shaping the perceptions of the individuals and the languages. By exploring unique ways in the following poems ‘Circular Breathing’ by Jaya Savige and ‘New accents’ by Ouyang Yu it shows how it…

Ethnocentrism Within culture there are two ways to look at other culture something called ethnocentrism and other cultural relativism. Ethnocentrism refers to judging another ethnic cultural group or individuals by the values and standards of one’s own culture. William Graham Sumner first encountered this term…