Ethnic+Identity

=1376003857= =Definition:= A sense of belonging to a certain ethnic group.HGDChapter 12 p. 312

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In this video, this young man from Korea explains how going to a school that was a diverse multi-cultural melting pot helped him to accept other cultures and to incorporate certain habits from those foreign entities into his own way of being. However, this caused friction when he returned to his native Korea. This is the principal dilemma in finding an ethnic identity; balancing yourself so that you can feel at home with your native ethnicity, as well as the culture that predominates in your social circles.

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An interesting case are Hispanic Americans. Most Spanish-speaking countries are as richly diverse as the United States; as such, "Hispanic" is not a race, but a culture that an individual belongs to, one whose only unifying factor is the fact that Spanish is spoken. Case in point: my father's from Peru, while my mother is Cuban. There could not be two more different cultures in the Hispanic spectrum.

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