Essay On Growing Up Asian In Australia

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Context : we define ourselves through the groups to which we belong. All individuals at times in life can find themselves in association with different groups, where the group being of common interests, same spoken language, same ethnicity or same shared values. Though those groups we can define ourselves and feel sense of belonging in there. Family is the first group to which majority of people ever belong. When we born in to the world, family are the first place we lived. Our sense of identity and belong can be given to us from birth, it means our family member can help us to feel that we belong. The poem ‘life-cycle’ from ‘sometimes gladness’ by Burce Dawe is talking about when the babies born them parents already helps them choice which footy team will the go to. The poem describes how a baby is wrapped in the’ club-colours’. Our family can define our sense of belonging. Sometimes we never question the assumptions and values which have been passed down by them. Yet our identity and belonging is influencing by our family and…show more content…
Sometimes which country that we belong is also a group that will influence our identity and belonging. Different country have different cultural and tradition. It can affect our sense of belong. The article ‘the face in the mirror’ from ‘Growing Up Asian in Australia’ by Blossom Beeby is telling us the story that the girl she is a orphan and adopted by an Australia family, she is feeling lost as long as she growing up. Because she has a Asian face but living in Australia that makes her feel confused and other people’s behavior lets her feel that she is not belonging here. But finally when she goes back to her own country, although she has not been there before but she can feel welcome and comfortable in Korea. This is the group gives us the feeling. And we can feel safety when we in the group, cannot feel lost

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