Write a 4–6 page paper (six pages maximum) in which you reflect on how the person you are today has been influenced by your group affiliations.
1. Explore, describe, and define your own cultural group(s) and cultural identify. Think about your personality, places you have visited, people you have met and discuss how or why these places or people have changed your attitudes or actions.
2. Examine your unique worldview, which includes your assumptions and perceptions. You can also consider the diversity within your family. How different are you from your siblings or from your parents?
3. How have your reference groups (race, ethnicity, gender, social class, religion, and sexual orientation) influenced your development as a person?
4. Describe your sense of ethnic or racial identity. Do you consider yourself a member of an ethnic or racial group? Why, why not? What labels do you use to describe your identity? What labels do others use?
5. What information from the course text or other scholarly source supports your ideas? What questions have they raised for you?
