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How Can Culture Affect Our Identity

Culture is shaped by the values, beliefs, and practices of a social group. It influences personal identity by assigning individuals to social groups and teaching them appropriate behaviors and ways of interacting. The culture one grows up in, including language, customs, and beliefs, has a powerful impact on who they become. However, individuals can also think independently and adjust their views based on their own experiences. The document discusses how factors like time, place, and environment affect different cultures in various ways.

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How Can Culture Affect Our Identity

Culture is shaped by the values, beliefs, and practices of a social group. It influences personal identity by assigning individuals to social groups and teaching them appropriate behaviors and ways of interacting. The culture one grows up in, including language, customs, and beliefs, has a powerful impact on who they become. However, individuals can also think independently and adjust their views based on their own experiences. The document discusses how factors like time, place, and environment affect different cultures in various ways.

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How can culture affect our

identity?

Written by: Youssef moataz

MYP4
Youssefmoataz
Culture is the combination of values, beliefs, and
practices of a particular group. The culture each person
lives in shows them how to dress, talk, act, acceptable
behavior, and gives a guideline of what is considered
acceptable and normal. As a child grows up in a particular
culture they absorb the beliefs, and practices of their
culture through what they are seeing around them and
also by what their parents teaches them. Then they begin
to use them in everyday in their life.

Each country has different cultural activities and cultural


rituals. Culture includes material goods, the things the
people use and produce. Culture is also the beliefs
and values of the people and the ways they think about
and understand the world and their own lives.

How Culture Affects Identity?


Culture influences personal identity because this gives
you the label for the group that you belong in. Within
culture you will find language, customs, mores, group
beliefs, and how to interact with people who are like
yourself.
Humans are social animals and culture is the glue that
holds groups of humans together. However, culture has
context and we tend to think that just because someone
speaks the way that we do, that they believe the same
things that we do. Language, for example, is a major
aspect of our identity and language, both what and how
we speak, is determined from birth by environment and
social culture. It is further influenced by education.
The brain is plastic and flat. By that I mean it is so heavily
influenced by external messages that any at-birth
biological factors are mostly immaterial and have little
sway over our sense of identity. Culture is one of the most
powerful factors on who we are and who will may
become.

If you are born in Egypt to middle-class Muslims


Egyptian parents, that is what you will become, albeit
with adjustments based on your unique life experience.

If you are born in Louisiana to white working class


Christian American parents, that is who you will become,
albeit with adaptations based on your unique experience
of life.
You definitely are affected by the world around you.
However any normal person can apply their own
reasoning to their observations under reasonable
circumstances. You can adjust for your own
preconceptions and not be a slave to bias.
This is why each of the 75 Billion people alive today is
unique but the same.

The biggest challenge that humans have is not going


into space or understanding the laws of physics, it
understands how to get along with each other and live
in peace.
Also, Culture can be expressed in through, may include
music, dance, art, designs, names, food, signs and
symbols, performances, ceremonies, architectural forms,
handicrafts and narratives, or many other artistic or
cultural expressions. Like in Italy is popular with the
pizza, France is popular with the evil tower in Paris like
when you say to someone lets go to France first thing that
comes on their mind is the evil tower and also the most
popular culture is
The Egyptian culture because it is the culture that made
all the other cultures around the world also it is the oldest
culture. Egyptian culture has six thousand years of
recorded history. Ancient Egypt was among the earliest
civilizations and for millennia, Egypt maintained a
strikingly complex and stable culture that influenced later
cultures of Europe, the Middle East and other African
countries. After the Pharaonic era, Egypt itself came
under the influence of Hellenism, Christianity, and
Islamic culture. So I am proud of my country.
The time, space and place also affect the culture like if
you live in Egypt so you will find that Egypt is a desert
country. But sure not all Egypt is desert country .Also if
you live in japan so japan is a coastal country.
The most important factor that affects the culture is Time.
Time affects the culture because every culture has their
culture like if you are in United Kingdom and you
traveled to Canada you won’t find the time in United
Kingdom is the same time in Canada. You will find that
there is UK is 5 hours ahead of Ottawa, Canada. So not
every culture has the same time.

However what is culture but every culture has their


challenge.
The most popular cultures problems
Employees are bored, discouraged and/or generally
unhappy. You’ll know your prospective teammates are less
than excited because Ahmed or another interviewer will tell
you about it, because you spot it with your own eyes when
you're in the facility or because Ahmed talks to you about
quality control or attendance issues. How do you solve this?
You can't force people to be happy. You have to listen to
them, and you can't even do that until you build trust with
them. That's a slow process but it's worth the effort!

In my opinion, that the culture affects everyone’s


identity and the culture is the most important thing
in every country. Also the culture should be a good
culture and right culture because the identity of
every person grows up based on the culture he
comes from. Also the parents should tell teach their
children about the culture they live in and they
should avoid telling them about the bad things or
bad habits in their culture. This if the culture has a
bad habits. And I wish the best to all the cultures
around the world

Bibliography
http://thewritingfinale.blogspot.com/2008/12/culture-
influences-identity.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_identity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture

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