Constructing Identity Through Cultural Practices

Culture is key to the construction of individualism. Identity is created by with(predicate) the practice of dissembleation, such as art, language, literature, and theater. These heathenish practices go a course different brotherly groups to express their attitudes and beliefs, and allow flock to create meat to their natural and friendly environment. In a sense, using ethnic practices to assign meaning serves as an effort to stabilize - or fix - individualism and to compensate ones self. Representation allows the construction of meaning or identity through culture, either by people representing themselves or being delineated by others. This cultural identity is a berth press between competing social interests, and the power lays in creating or fix supreme meanings that are broadly speaking accepted by the population. This has guide to struggle in delimit identities that make up the social world, which is why culture serves as an expression of politics. It ca n be accustomd both as a form of subway or an instrument of mastery. For example, Mexican Americans induce been seen as a conquered, oppressed people and there has been an emphasis upon total domination and victimization. They have been portrayed as victims of race and class oppression, and this has direct to a call for social justice and for unity against oppression. In this sense, culture is important because it is a practice people use to express oppression and a version of identity. It provides a way of questioning assumptions and challenging social norms while generating awareness. Historically, Mexican Americans have been misrepresented by the dominant white Anglo ordering. This misrepresentation leads Mexican American strive to represent themselves and form their own identity through various cultural practices.\nThe dominant white Anglo society has used common cultural practices to form a prejudicious view of the Mexican American. later on the conquest of Mexico, whit e people did not like the whim that the acqui...