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Chapter 12: The Potential for Intercultural Competence

Chapter 1: Introduction to Intercultural Competence

Chapter 2: Culture and Intercultural Communication

Chapter 3: Intercultural Communication Competence

Chapter 4:Cultural Patterns and Communication- Foundations

Chapter 5: Cultural Patterns and Communication- Taxonomies

Chapter 6: Cultural Identity and Cultural Biases

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Chapter 9: The Effects of Code Usage in Intercultural Communication

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Chapter 6: Cultural Identity and Cultural Biases

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Cultural identity refers to one’s sense of belonging to a particular culture or ethnic group.

Social identity develops as a consequence of memberships in particular groups within one’s culture.
 Personal identity is based on people’s unique characteristics, which may

differ from those of others in their cultural and social groups.

If I were to apply the areas of cultural Identity to myself it would look like this:

My cultural identity is defined by my being an American. I have the knowledge that I have Irish roots
on my mothers side and Puerto-rican ones on my Fathers. However, echoes of these cultures are
nowhere to be seen in my upbringing or life as an adult, in large part due to the absence of my Father
throughout my life.

My social identity is formed by various groups to which I belong. I am a nondenominational

Christian, I am a member of a church, a teacher, a graduate student and part of a family. All of these
things inform my social identity.

My personal identity is based on my unique characteristics, which may

differ from those of others in my cultural and social groups. I am a singer/ songwriter, I play the ukulele, I
draw, I paint I love math, I love to read, I have a passion for missions in all of its forms (going, sending,
welcoming praying...) I'm a big sister and an aunt.

Cultural identity is formed in a process that results from membership in a particular culture, and it
involves learning about and accepting the traditions, heritage, language, religion, ancestry, aesthetics,
thinking patterns, and social structures of a culture. Cultural identities often develop through a process
involving three stages: unexamined cultural identity, cultural identity

search, and cultural identity achievement.

In the unexamined cultural identity stage, one’s cultural characteristics are taken for granted, and
consequently there is little interest in exploring cultural issues.

Cultural identity search involves a process of exploration and questioning about one’s culture in
order to learn more about it and to understand the implications of membership in that culture.

Cultural identity achievement is characterized by a clear, confident

acceptance of oneself and an internalization of one’s cultural identity.

Elements or characteristics of cultural identity are as follows:

Cultural identities are central, dynamic, and multifaceted components of a person’s self-concept.

Cultural identities are central to a person’s life just as a person’s gender or race.
Cultural identities are actively a part of a changing social dynamic.

Cultural identities are dictated by one’s own life experience.

Cultural identities are multifaceted, made up by several different components. Cultural identity is not
made up of one characteristic but rather several including religion, heritage, and social groups.

Application

Everyone has a cultural identity that is unique to the individual. It often goes unexamined, in part
because it is so essential to forming who we are, that we operate in it and simply accept it as our reality.
In considering the contents of this chapter and examining my own cultural identity I am now able to see
how it affects my everyday life. In understanding my own cultural identity I have a better understanding
of myself and the reasons we react the way we do to other cultures. In examining aspects of other
cultures I am also forced to consider how their perception of me in mediated through their own cultural
identity.

Biblical Links

"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will." Romans
12:2

I am, in large part defined, by my Christianity. It informs how I govern myself in every social and
personal aspect of my identity and it's views take precedents over those things which my own culture
may esteem. I am His first and foremost, I am new, I am not conformed to this world or my culture,
though it is helpful to examine and to know what I must overcome to make such a statement.

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