The limits of my language are the limits of my mind (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

My Cultural Identity
My cultural identity is defined by my location, my ethnicity, my religion, as well as anumber of other factors which have influenced my cultural identity, and that of everyone else, a lot.The chart and its definitions of the factors that can define a person's cultural identity was interesting to me. Many modern questions of culture can also be viewed as questions about an individual's cultural identity. Many aspects of cultural studies and social theory are also concerned with cultural identity, as the individual manifestation of larger cultural forces. The latest theories of these fields have focused on group-identification and how pieces of an individual can form one entire coherent subject. Cultural identity is concerned with: gender, race, history, place, nationality, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. Growing up, I have mainly lived in the westside Romania, Oradea. Both my parents backgrounds are Romanian and I grew up identifying myself as a Romanian too. Being a female gender I do not think it has much of an impact, being given that I come from a place where the genders are mainly treated as equal to each other. I am 24 years old, middle-class, and I have lived in a good suburb since I was a child. I think that I have been defined a great deal by where I grew up, as most people are. For example, if I had grown up in the south side of Romania, I would be around different cultures every day, and thus would have a different perspective on life and likely be a very different person. I think that my job as a customer assistent might define and also highlight a lotof who I am and my personal identity. I am a people person, and I love meeting new people and getting to know them. I like to talk to people about their backgrounds, offer them my help, have fun together. I belong to a big group of aquintaces and only some real friends. I am an ope-minded perso, not the kind to neglect people only because they are black, catholic, rich or poor, but the only that I really dont like are those who have other sexual orientation, I just cant understand them and maybe I dont want too either. I come from an orthodox family, I have a younger brother and lovely fiance. As I mentioned above I have friends coming from different cultural backgrounds: Ethipia, Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Great Britain. What really helped me in shapping my personality and broading my perspectives and points of view was my exchange student period in Denmark and my au-pair experience in Germany. Living away from home, getting in touch with people from a lot different cultures made me see things differently as I used before and opened my mind not to judge people by their appearance, as we are used to, here in Romania.

I live in a normal family, my parents kind of allowed me to do everything and encouraged me in taking part to different activities, such as dancing, karate, modeling. The people Ive met and the things Ive experienced have no comeback and I feel proud of everything I have acquired and the decisions I have made. As a teenager, I was very strict with others and couldnt understand so easy why do they do things differently as we use to, but now after my exchange student and au-pair experince I see things from another perspective. Now I know that being a human implies much more than ones culture.