How does where one live help determine one’s cultural identity?

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How does where one live help determine one’s cultural identity?
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Culture plays a very important role in day to day life of any individual. Culture greatly is influenced by our behaviour, beliefs , attitude, capacities to identify what is right and wrong, true or false. Culture helps us in forming every individual identity and personalities. 

Culture helps in forming individual identity, personality and forms similarity between groups in the society. An individual by his birth acts and learn from his home , neighbors , surroundings . He try and built character accordingly . He learns certain beliefs , values , morals from his culture only.

The various concepts like Race, gender, sexuality, morals, values , attitude, beliefs and ability are socially constructed along with the cultural identities that are formed in individual and society with generations to historical, geographical,social, and political , economical contexts. The above mentioned concepts like Race, gender, sexuality, morals, beliefs, values and ability are cultural identities that are affected in our day to day life , and our relationships.

 

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