Essay - Communications if a Person is Born into One Culture and...

communications

***** a person is born into one culture and raised in another, he or she can choose to identify with one or the other culture, or both. However, the ways that o*****r people characterize or judge the individual might be related to his ***** her physical appearance ra*****r than their personal identity. The ***** to which a person belongs depends more on their self-concept than on the views of other *****.

A person who was raised by Chinese-***** parents in the United States would have two different cultures: Chinese ***** American. Because the *****'s ***** are Chinese and spoke ***** language at home, he or ***** would be able ***** identify closely with ***** culture. Especially when the individual can speak the language ***** their family's origin, practices their *****'s religion, and intimately knows the values and beliefs of ***** culture, he or she can readily identify ***** the culture into which they were b*****n. Unless ***** consciously disavow ***** culture of ***** they will always belong to the ***** ***** which they were born. In fact, even if a person does not speak their parents' ***** or practices their parents' religion they still "belong" to that culture because of their ancestral heritage.

On the o*****r h*****, if t*****e person is ra*****ed in another culture they ***** also acquire values, beliefs, languages, behaviors, and even the religion of that *****. In the Uni*****d States, many people are born ********** ***** culture and raised in another; they become socialized as Americans even though ***** families and p*****nts retain their cultural identities. The individual can then choose to ***** as having a co-culture, such as Asian