These aspects of life define people of different cultures as a person. These traits impact ones life, define who they are and make them different from any other person in society. Culture forms and bends thoughts of right and wrong and what is accepted and what is not approved of. These identity differences among different cultures is what makes our world so unique, but difficult to control. With so many different influences and ideas directing our paths in life, one must wonder if what they have been taught in their culture is right or wrong.
“Belonging is when people accept you for who you are” Our identity determines who we are and where we belong, and it undergoes a continual change as we are exposed to different kinds of environments and people. Belonging means to feel a sense of welcome and acceptance to someone or something. It is indeed true that belonging is when people accept you for who you are, isolation and depression often ensues when one fails to find a sense of belonging. Our sense of belonging could be affected by the change of our experiences overtime, and how easily we are influenced by our family and friends, or even media. As it may be difficult to discover our true identity, it jeopardises our ability to find a sense of belonging, because we are weary from our previous unpleasant experiences.
051.3.1. Explain how people from different backgrounds may use and/or interpret communication methods in different ways. Backgrounds are a person’s education, experience, and social/ economics circumstances. Experiences and understanding of the world, the words we use and how we use them is influenced by your culture. In this sense, communication is very dependent on backgrounds, such as all about our origins: geographic, religion, social, economic, education, etc.
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Culture affects how people relate with each other, tastes and preferences, habits, dreams and desires. However, in as much as culture binds people together, it also blinds us selectively. As individuals grow up, they accept certain ways of looking at the world and ways of being and thinking that can be best described as cultural myths. It is these myths that help people to comprehend their rightful place in their relationship to others, to nature, to the past and future, to power and to the nation. One of the deeply rooted myths in American culture that shapes the behavior of Americans is the myth of success.
“Our relationships with others help us to determine who we are.” The way we interact with others whether they be a stranger or a friend helps to define who we are and our identity. In life, we make many very different relationships. As humans, the need of social relationships with others is very necessary. To find our identity and to fit into a group we force ourselves to be more like them. When we are surrounded by people who are more like us we tend to share and understand more.
On the other hand however, we don’t always find that our identity is influenced by others. It could be that a person’s individual actions that determines their own identity. Everyone in the world possesses different characteristics which separates and makes them different from others. The different traits that each individual possess is definitely a building block that shapes up to be their own reality. However, people nowadays are becoming more and more self concious of their traits/appearance and due to the massive influence of the social media especially through the form of media advertisement; we as a society are becoming more influenced by what others think and in turn it reflects on our own identity and reality as a person.
Gretel’s culture is what she was brought up with, her religion, her race, the way she looks and the way she acts around others. Gretel was clearly influenced by her culture because she easily came to accept it. Growing in an environment where hating Jews was a rule and was considered “normal” is what caused her to follow her culture. She was raised to follow her culture, and being surrounded by Ralf, her dad who is an SS Commandant, and well as her teacher Herr Liszt contributed to her identity as well. Another character which supports my idea that culture is an important factor in shaping an individual's identity is Ralf - the father of Gretel and Bruno.
One of the central issues of psychology is identity and the way individuals shape their identities for themselves. People live in different regions all around the globe and are consequently exposed to a distinct type of culture, religion, education, family values and media. These influences instill certain rigid values in people from birth, which configures their self-concept and the way they perceive other individuals in the society they interact with. In many Western societies, the importance of personal achievement and glory are inculcated in people from early childhood. Hazel Markus and Shinobu Kitayama (1991) observed in a study that the culture in the North America values an identity that is focused on individual motivations, attributes and goals.
We learn our self-concept through communication with others. We learn important facts about ourselves from reflected appraisals. Reflected appraisals serve as an influence to our self-concept. A reflected appraisal is what we think other people think about us, and in many instances, the way we believe others perceive us is how we in turn view ourselves. "We get messages about who we are from all of the people around us and these messages are most powerful when they come from significant others.