Essays on Cultural Identity

Looking back at my life I have realised almost all my life was spent outside my country and due to that, I have experienced many different cultures and environment which helped me gain a very diverse and unique identity which if compared to my own...

From the 1960s to the present-day United States, various Southeast Asian communities such as Vietnamese and Laotians have greatly increased in population size. With the withdrawal of American troops in the cessation of the Vietnam War, countless individuals were left with only their broken communities....

Idioms are a part of every language which reflects cultural features of each nation. It can be broken into certain shared categories with identical characteristics. This research paper will focus on analyzing Vietnamese and English comparative idioms in terms of their formation. The thorough analysis...

Family and culture should be the two most important things in our lives. In the short story, “A Pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan, the main character (Jing-mei) evolves over the course of the story by struggling with her identity as a Chinese to being...

One of the most interesting cultural concepts is that of altruism. For our purposes, altruism refers to our willingness to give away financial resources, even when it’s to our own detriment. Historically, Eastern cultures have been known to be more altruistic than their Western counterparts....

Ever since human societies have emerged, there has been some sort of importance placed on a woman’s reproductive health, as it is the main factor in the further expansion of their communities, cultures and populations. While there are many communities have several rites of passages...

Bog bodies were preserved human bodies, mainly ones of those who lived during the late Bronze Age and the Iron Age time periods. Although, there are bog bodies from later time periods as well. These bodies were preserved in bogs across many Northern European countries....