Identity and Culture

When we think about our identity, we often consider our own opinion. Please consider hair color, eyes color, skin color, height, weight. These features are part of our identity, but there are many complex factors that make us real. Although psychological problems are essential to our identity formation, I will deal with the nature of our identity in terms of socio-cultural factors (Austin, 2002, p. 9). In this article, I will describe the identity term and the axis of identity including race, class, and gender.

Identity and culture are two fundamental elements of race. By establishing identity and culture, individuals and groups try to solve racial boundaries and meaning problems. Race is best understood as personal identity and group organization dynamics, evolving attributes. The citizen's identity and cultural construction is the dialectic function that works by the structure and the agency - the people and the larger society. Race is the product of behavior taken by the country to shape self-definition and culture and change its shape; but by shaping and changing the categories and definitions of race, race is also an external society Economic, political processes and actors are built. In this article I will describe in detail several ways of ethnic identity and culture creation and reproduction in modern society.

There seems to be a different view on culture and social identity. Cultural identity is defined as the identity of a group or culture or individual, as long as a person is affected by belonging to a group or culture. In addition, cultural identity is similar to identity politics and overlaps. A new form of identification has been proposed that breaks down the understanding of the entire body as an individual into a collection of different cultural identifiers. These identifiers can arise from various conditions such as location, gender, ethnicity, history, nationality, language, gender, religion, ethnicity, aesthetics and even food. In places where the US and Canada are ethnically diverse, social solidarity is mainly based on shared social values ​​and beliefs. However, some people criticize cultural identity claim that cultural identity based on differences is the power to divide in society.

Cultural identity is not only defined by ethnic groups and cultures you identify. For example, cultural identity includes race, religion, class, sex, gender, socio-economic status, and family identity. In addition, national, social and personal identities will also contribute to that person's cultural identity. Everyone has multiple identities that form their perception of the world. Throughout history, differences in cultural identity caused tension. For example, in the early days of the United States, Caucasians and Africans coexisted in the relationship of owners and slaves, and Africans were regarded as untapped. World War II involved the Holocaust and the Germans thought they were "racially superior", so the Nazi army killed more than 6 million Jews. In both cases racial identity is involved, which is a problem in many communities and countries today.