Cultural Identity Essay Examples and Topics

I was born and raised in the still developing, air polluted, birthplace of hip hop: The Bronx. I am an Afro-Latina Queer woman and I have no shame of where I come from; despite it being rough around the edges. The Bronx is honorably raw,…

Everyone knows that Malaysia is a multi-cultural and multi-lingual country, and the common languages use in Malaysia are including Malay, English, and Mandarin. In Malaysia, there is also a version of English known as ‘Manglish’ which is a mixture of English with other local languages…

“Babe, can we talk,” he asked with a nervous tone. “My parents are racist,’ my caucasian boyfriend Asher blurted out, sounding defeated and helpless. My heart made a sudden jolt and then quieted down in my chest as a crippling fear wrapped a tight grip…

As of 2017, approximately four million Filipino-Americans inhabited the U.S. which does not cover one hundred million Filipinos as a whole. Many outside of the Philippines view the country with starving citizens, flooded areas, and rare health conditions with impossible cure and treatment. Sadly, we…

In her essay, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” (1987), Gloria Anzaldúa asserts that foreigners were treated as inferior because of their language. She does this by giving her readers insights into her own life, through the usage of imagery and description. Anzaldúa hopes that…

Matthew Rhys, who is well known for the television series “The Americans” once said, “I’ve suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It’s why I went into acting.” This quote can relate to people in many different ways because, when you don’t know who…

Cultural assimilation is a very powerful theme that many people can relate to or identify with. It is complex, composed of features that are heavily influenced by external factors (things we can’t control) such as location/geography, ethnicity, political motives, and societal pressures. It’s also affected…

The TED Talk by Nigerian journalist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi was a rather powerful talk. ‘The Danger of a Single Story mainly talks about the negative consequences of individuals having only one stereotypical viewpoint of another country or culture and based on their own perceptions, thereby attaching stereotypical identities to others. Adichi breaks down her…

In ‘How to Tame the Wild Tongue’, Gloria Anzaldua tried to grasp why society includes a negative perspective towards Chicano’s words still because of the living of Chicano at the border between Mexico and America. Starting her story, the tooth doctor said: “We’re going to…

Throughout the semester, I have been immersed in literature written by writers of different races and ethnicities. Although the plots and characters were diverse, they all searched for self-concept. Humans have an ideal perspective of their own culture identity, this often different than the identity…

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…

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,…

Juan Flores is the author of the essay “The Structuring of Puerto Rican Identity” from his book Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity. In the essay, Flores examines Puerto Rican immigrants/migrants and their experience of moving from mainland Puerto Rico to an urban city…

“The black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness” –Marcus Garvey, (Cammock-Gayle, 2013). This is a quote from one of Marcus Garvey’s teachings that sought to give the black people a sense of pride in their blackness…

Puerto Rico is a carribean island that became territory of the United States in 1898, after the Spanish-Cuban-American War. Puerto Ricans became United States citizens in 1917, allowing them to legally migrate to any state. An influx of Migration to the US began after the…