A Person's Cultural Identity

Do you ever think about the reasoning behind everything you do, think or say? Well the reason why we do, think or say these things are because of our cultural identity. Cultural identity is the belonging to a certain group based on your religion, your social class, you ethnicity and how you were brought up as a child. A person’s cultural identity consistently causes them to view the world and other people differently because of the way they were raised and their religion.

The way a person is raised influences the way they view the world and others. As a young child they learn right from wrong, so they have different rules and guidelines which can show them that just because the morals their parents instilled in them can be different than what another set of parents instill in their child. “It is specially designed to provide the child with the kind of knowledge and experience he will need in order to survive in his culture and environment.” (An Indian Father’s Plea). Native Americans raise their children in a different way than most modern families. So although the child might not know the ways of ‘normal’ life doesn’t make them any less educated. One day I stole some change from my grandmother's dresser and my mother asked me “Where did you get all that change from?” So I said “out of my piggy bank.” Then my mom found out where
This however is wrong because the culture itself is what really changes how they feel about a certain topic. For example, if a person comes from Mexico than they will always be Mexican no matter what. They can’t perceive that part of their cultural identity anyway else. It doesn’t matter what way a person looks at their cultural identity, because if they perceive it differently than someone else that comes from the same group of people that means that they associate themselves with the wrong