Essays on Cultural Identity

Disproportionality first came into the public consciousness during the tail end of the civil rights movement in the 1960s (Cruz & Rodl, 2018; Morgan, et al., 2015; Skiba, Artiles, Kozleski, Losen, & Harry, 2016; Skiba, Poloni-Staudinger, Simmons, Renae Feggins-Azziz, & Chung, 2005; Sullivan & Bal,…

Results and Interpretation Different Generations, Different Cultural Identities Father-Knows-Best trilogy explores the topic of cultural identity, using the English language as ‘a tool for both communication and miscommunication’ (Dilley, 2014: 51). It shows Ang Lee’s interest in family changes, reconstruction and disintegration. The meaning of…

White Culture or Black Culture If I blindfolded, you sat you in a chair, started have a conversation with someone unbeknown to you, and they have proper English and cheerful tone. I say “her name is Claire”. Then I let you feel her hair and…

Identity Through Tradition Most families have a tradition, whether it is as small as pizza night every Friday to an extravagant, annual family reunion. My family’s favorite ritual involves getting together once a year around the holidays to make a huge batch of ravioli, which…

I see myself as a unique learner. My epilepsy and the medication to control it made learning an extreme challenge. Teachers expected me to meet the challenge of learning to read, write, and do math, but it was like climbing Mt. Everest for me. The…

The question of cultural identity in an immigrant society prevails in this novel by K. S. Maniam. The Return fictionalises Maniam’s experiences of fleeing away from demands to preserve his grandparent’s ancestral culture, the expectations of the Malaysian society for cultural and linguistic assimilation, as…

In his essay Globalization and Cultural Identity, John Tomlinson, contra popular view that modernity and globalization destroy cultural identities, argues that the production of identities is, in itself, a condition of modernity. Modernity, according to Tomlisnson, institutionalizes and codifies cultural practices, “including those by which…

“You’re an honest, decent person. Even though you’re a Jew.” – Constable In ‘Fiddler on the roof’ the Jews become victims of rising anti-Semitism in Russia. Tevye and the Jews live life to themselves, with very little contact outside of the shtetl. To quote Tevye;…