Identity And Cultural Identity

My cultural identity was shaped by my religion/ ethnicity and the large role that it played in my development as a person. Because of this, I have developed a better sense of how to behave in public and in private, as well as how to handle things such as ignorance and different opinions.. This bases on the behavior of people in my community growing up and how they reacted to the events around them.

Since religion was such a driving force in the community that I grew up in, I got educated on what a true muslim woman should be like from an early age; that knowledge- along with others interpretations of it- prompted me to define the roles of a woman in society for myself. I was also able to define for myself how the holy scriptures would affect

Learning this from an early age reflects in my understanding of people and my need to be as open- minded as possible. This is most notably seen in how I treat the children at the orphanage I co-founded.

My open- mindedness is a result of the way that my religion and ethnicity has affected my cultural identity throughout my life. I have had many experiences that have influenced the way that I see people and how they behave, as well as judging how I bhave. With this, I am more understanding towards people whose opinions differ from mine.

My geographic location greatly shaped the structure of my cultural identity. I live in the Middle East, so I have been surrounded by middle eastern culture since birth. Middle eastern culture consists of all of the pleasures i find in life; the food I enjoy eating, the religion I devote my beliefs to, the music I enjoy listening to and the language that I speak, Pashto. The middle east has an irreplaceable cultural aspect that has constructed my personality and cultural

I had a great educational career and successfully excelled in it. However, due to some events that happened in my country and my environment, my mental state was traumatized for a great portion of my life. I unfortunately had to experience the war that my country engaged in. I also went through some complications with my current husband, Tariq, and my ex-husband Rasheed; that was soon resolved with the help of my best friend, Mariam. At the end of it all I then had to go through the death of my good friend Mariam. It was hard but I lived through it. My mentality has been through alot and these traumatic events have shaped my conscious to the mental strength it is at today. My mental health is now stable now that I am living with my husband, but due to these events, my mentality have grown stronger; and I feel that there is nothing that I can’t