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Exploring Cultural Identity and Self-Reflection

This document contains assignments related to reflecting on cultural and personal identity. It includes questions about how culture shapes identity, examining the self through different perspectives, and reflecting on one's own identity struggles. It also contains prompts to complete a cultural identity checklist, discuss what makes up a person's identity in relation to society, and how identity may change based on different factors like who one is with or where they are in life.

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Exploring Cultural Identity and Self-Reflection

This document contains assignments related to reflecting on cultural and personal identity. It includes questions about how culture shapes identity, examining the self through different perspectives, and reflecting on one's own identity struggles. It also contains prompts to complete a cultural identity checklist, discuss what makes up a person's identity in relation to society, and how identity may change based on different factors like who one is with or where they are in life.

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ASSIGNMENT NO.

1. Explain how culture affects or shapes one’s identity;

Answer: a person’s understanding of their own cultural identity develops from


birth and is shaped by the values and attitudes prevalent at home and the
surrounding, nothing that the cultural identity, in its essence, relates to our need
to belong. Everyone needs to feel accepted and “at home”. With a certain group.

2. Examine your sense of self through the different I- positions and the three
fundamental selves; and

Answer:

3. Reflect on your own identity struggles by writing an essay.

Answer: As I reach this stage of adolescent, I have noticed that lots of challenges
happens to overcome and problems to be solved. Challenges in life are
inevitable and I am not afraid of them. I know that I am smart and that I was given
the ability to plan and problem solve by my creator.

I take an active role in my own life. I let go of the idea that I am a victim of my
circumstances. Instead, I use my god given power of intelligence to plan strategies
ahead of time that help me deal with the bumps in my road.

I let go of impulsive reactivity. I know that I am in charge of my own life. I draw


strength from the knowledge I have within me to face challenge. Because I am
confident of this, I can face each new situation calmly based on what I know to be
best.

If I need help in sorting through my thoughts and options, I am not afraid to ask
for help those who have lived longer or experienced more of life. Doing so is a
sign of majority, not weakness, and is an important part of my decision to live
intelligently.
4. Complete your cultural identity checklist. Write your answer at the right
column.

Gender: Female

Age: 19

Marital status: Single

Sexual orientation:

Skin color: Brown

Religion:

Citizenship: Filipino

Language: Cebuano and Manobo

Regional identity

Economic status

Educational background

Generation

Personality

Being born to this highly advanced global society, and being tagged as ‘millennial’,
how you would answer the questions:

5. What are you as a person?

Answer:

6. How do you identify yourself in relation to society?

Answer:
1. Define your values. Values and personal beliefs are fundamental aspects
of identity.
2. Make your own choices. Your decisions should, for the most part,
primarily benefit your health and well- being.
3. Spend time alone.
4. Consider how to achieve your ideals.

7. What is the most important part of your identity?

Answer:

8. Is there one part of myself, as a person, that stands out from the rest?

Answer: Yes, I have 1 thing that I stand out from the rest it is am unique in my
own way and my identity change depending on who the person I’m with and I am
now in a stage of life where I need to work hard and finish college so I can support
my future kids.

9. Does my identity change depending on who I am with, what I am involved


in and:

Answer: Immediate family, friendship groups and the physical environment are all
factors which contribute to our ever changing perceptions of us. Sometimes
personal identity can be subtly reshaped over a gradual of who we are modified
without personal recognition that we are changing.

[Link] I am now in my life?

Answer:

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