How would you define your identity?

Personality traits, abilities, likes and dislikes, your belief system or moral code, and the things that motivate you — these all contribute to self-image or your unique identity as a person. People who can easily describe these aspects of their identity typically have a fairly strong sense of who they are.

How does culture affect you in knowing your self more?

Personality traits: Culture influences whether and how you value traits like humility, self-esteem, politeness, and assertiveness. Culture also influences how you perceive hardship and how you feel about relying on others.

What are things that make up your identity?

Identity is simply defined as the characteristics determining who or what a person or thing is. Elements or characteristics of identity would include race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical attributes, personality, political affiliations, religious beliefs, professional identities, and so on.

How do I become my own person?

To be your own person clearly requires independence of thought, feeling, and action. This means that you can and do think, feel, and act without excessively relying on others to give you direction.

What are the different aspects of self and identity?

Personal identity refers to those aspects of self-definition at the individual level including goals, values, beliefs, and a whole set of associated self-representations and self-evaluations.

Why understanding our own culture is important?

Awareness of our own culture is important, because it can keep us from projecting our values onto others. This reality can lead to an unintentional blindness and potential insensitivity to the values important to members of other cultures. For example, mainstream American culture respects direct eye contact.

How is self understood and how is my self shaped and influenced by culture?

How we see ourselves shapes our lives, and is shaped by our cultural context. Self-perceptions influence, among other things, how we think about the world, our social relationships, health and lifestyle choices, community engagement, political actions, and ultimately our own and other people’s well-being.